Five humans perish in Amazon cargo plane accident in Miami, where safety protocols are apparently just decorative.
An Amazon cargo plane reportedly went off a runway in Miami, and five people are dead. Details are limited, which is probably for the best, because the alternative is a press release written by someone whose job title is "Fulfillment Tragedian." Here we have the full horror of modern logistics: human beings reduced to "shipment irregularities," grief waiting in line behind a service-level agreement. Five families will get the worst news of their lives, and somewhere a warehouse robot is still scanning boxes, smug about its 98% on-time rate. Expect the usual dance: preliminary reports, a National Transportation Safety Board investigation, and a statement that Amazon's "hearts are with those affected" — corporate for we are legally advised to say that. The packages, meanwhile, are already being rerouted. Priorities, after all, are priorities.