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The widow of the airport driver whose vehicle was \u201ctorn apart\u201d during the deadly Amazon plane crash filed the first lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging \u201cmultiple, concurrent failures\u201d led to her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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Yaraisi Santiso Morejon is suing the tech giant and the 21 Air aviation company that operated the doomed Amazon Prime Air Flight 7598 that killed five, including her husband, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims were airport workers and a motorist on a public road\u2014people who had every reason to believe they were safe. They were not,\u201d the lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade County\u2019s 11th Judicial Circuit Court and obtained by The Post, read.<\/p>\n

Naranjo, 53, was driving a Ford Van with several cleaning crew workers employed by Professional Ocean Service Corp. inside when the cargo plane overran Runway 30 at Miami International Airport and crashed into the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts go out to Yaraisi and her family, as well as all those who were impacted by what we believe was a preventable tragedy,\u201d Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan said Wednesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should lose their loved one this way, and the filing of this lawsuit is just the beginning of our fight to secure justice and accountability for Mr. Naranjo\u2019s death. Everyone who played a role in this horrific crash will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The van was being driven within the airport\u2019s property when the plane overran the runway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis disaster was not an unavoidable accident. It was the foreseeable and preventable result of multiple, concurrent failures,\u201d the suit said.<\/p>\n

Morejon and her attorneys claimed there was a systemic failure by Amazon, 21 Air and the pilots that led to the deadly crash.<\/p>\n

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Factors including operation of a 32-year-old aircraft \u201cwhose braking, thrust reverser, and spoiler systems are under active NTSB investigation,\u201d inadequate training and pilot error for attempting \u201ca high-speed, tailwind-affected landing while failing to execute a mandatory go-around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit also lists pilots Joseph Carroll and Jamie Felipe Silva Molina as defendants, stating the pair failed to declare an emergency during the \u201crunway excursion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of these failures, standing alone, was sufficient to cause death. Together, they were catastrophic,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n

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The plane was going 167 knots (approximately 192 mph) with only 5,000 feet of paved surface remaining, 4,000 feet past the intended touchdown area on the runway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe allege that this was not a freak accident, but a foreseeable and preventable disaster caused by negligence,\u201d Morgan & Morgan attorney Mike Morgan said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve already uncovered points to a series of failures by the people flying the plane, the companies that put it in the air and the systems that were supposed to prevent this exact kind of tragedy. Yaraisi deserves answers and justice. We intend to get her both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morejon is seeking damages in excess of $50,000 from a jury trial.<\/p>\n

Five other people were injured in the crash, with both pilots escaping the wreckage alive.<\/p>\n

A distressed Captain Silva Molina stressed that his \u201ccareer is over,\u201d after the crash, witness Abraham Altamar told CBS News.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust tell my mom that I was in the accident, but I\u2019m already out of the plane, that I\u2019m good,\u201d the pilot said on the phone, according to the airport staffer.<\/p>\n

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