The co‑pilot, however, gave no consistent verbal response to those speed warnings, according to the same recording released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Because the aircraft remained too fast, it ran off the end of the runway by about 1,300 feet (400 metres), collided with a van carrying workers from a plane‑cleaning company, and then struck a compact SUV on a nearby road before catching fire.

All five people killed were occupants of the van; five others were injured, two of them remaining in critical condition. Both pilots survived the crash.

The NTSB has published portions of the cockpit audio but said the full transcript will not be released until a later date.

Former FAA official Mike O'Donnell, who once oversaw airport safety and crash investigations, said the crew could have slowed the plane by extending spoilers, cutting the throttles, or lowering the landing gear, or simply aborted the landing and attempted another approach.

‘You have plenty of time to slow down, plenty of time to say, let’s just do a go‑around at two minutes out,’ O'Donnell warned, highlighting how early action might have prevented the tragedy.