The National Transportation Safety Board has some new details about what happened in the final seconds before an Amazon cargo plane crashed in Miami on Sunday. It turns out the pilots might have been thinking about aborting the landing.

At a press briefing on Tuesday, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the agency plans to interview both pilots and will release the cockpit voice recorder readout. The timeline from the flight data recorder paints a pretty dramatic picture.

Here's the sequence: 30 seconds before the recording ends, the nose gear and right main gear touch down at 158 knots (about 181 mph). The brakes are applied at 146 knots (168 mph). Then, 19 seconds out, the left main gear touches down at 134 knots (154 mph). But then, 15 seconds before the end, the brakes are released at 120 knots (138 mph), and the throttles are pushed up to what looks like go-around thrust.

For those not fluent in aviation jargon, go-around thrust is when pilots apply extra engine power to abandon a landing and climb back up for another attempt. It's a standard maneuver when a landing isn't working out. The NTSB also noted that the data shows no sign of speed brakes or thrust reversers being deployed, according to The Wall Street Journal.

But here's the twist: the brakes were reapplied just 11 seconds before the recording ends. And at the very last data frame, the ground speed was still 65 knots (74 mph). So whatever they tried, it wasn't enough.

Homendy also shared some background on the crew. The captain, 55, got his type rating for the Boeing 767 in May of this year. He has 7,145 total flight hours. The first officer, 37, was certified on the 767 in April last year and has 2,655 hours.

The crash killed five people when the plane overshot the runway and slammed into two vehicles, a van with seven people inside and an SUV. It's a tragic reminder of how high the stakes are.

Interestingly, Boeing recently paid a $3.1 million fine to the Federal Aviation Administration for safety issues. That's a separate matter, but it adds some context to the broader concerns about aviation safety.

The NTSB's investigation is ongoing, and the release of the cockpit voice recorder will likely shed more light on what the pilots were thinking in those final moments. For now, the data suggests they were trying to figure something out, but time just ran out.