Amazon cargo plane captain, 55, was a US Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot who has chalked up 7,000 flying hours...but experts claim the Miami crash was a royal 'screw up'

One pilot told the other about the aircraft's "excessive speed" but received an uneven response even as alarms sounded.

For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast, according to flight information.

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.