The captain of the Amazon Prime jet that overshot a runway and killed five people was a former US Army Black Hawk helicopter instructor and aviation safety officer, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Joseph Carroll, one of two crew members who escaped Sunday’s disaster at Miami International Airport unscathed, spent 15 years in the military before becoming an airline pilot.
The married father of two boys joined the Army in 1997 as an air traffic controller, became a Black Hawk UH-60 pilot and went on to train fellow soldiers for overseas combat missions.
For his final nine months of service, Carroll, 55, was
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