A live-streamer who filmed the scene of a deadly plane crash and posted it on his revenue-generating channel is unrepentant and won’t be taking it down, he told The Independent, despite fierce online backlash.
An Amazon Prime Air delivery plane crash-landed Sunday afternoon at Miami International Airport, Florida, killing five people in a van on the ground and injuring three others when the jet tore through a perimeter fence. The cause of the crash is being investigated.
Around four hours later, Kick streamers “ChickenAndy,” 27, of Calabasas, California, Miami-based “BinxBasilisk,” 33, and two other streamers arrived at the crash site.
The pair posed in front of the plane’s nose, holding their phones on selfie sticks. The plane is visible behind them with the aircraft’s nose smashed into the ground and against the chain-link fence. On a livestream to his 39,200 followers on Kick, which generates an income, ChickenAndy documented the group as they pushed closer to the crashed plane, interacting along the way with media members, civilians and police officers.
“A plane crashed today,” BinxBasilisk captioned a photo in a joint Instagram post to her 10,800 followers and ChickenAndy’s 11,600 followers.
open image in galleryAn Instagram community note posted below the photo read: “This was an Amazon Prime Air Cargo Flight, on September 6, 2026. It overran a runway and crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, at least 5 people were killed in the crash.”
The backlash to the social media content was swift. Aviation and flight tracker Jack Sweeney was one of those who reposted the photo on X Monday.
“Streamers posting Instagram photos and treating the Miami plane crash site where 5 people lost their lives like a tourist attraction,” he wrote.
Other social media users posted directly beneath the streamers’ photo. “Someone died. Couldn’t even wait 24 hours to capitalize on it for clout,” one wrote. A number of people tagged the Miami-Dade Police Department, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and National Transportation Safety Board, urging them to investigate.
In an interview with The Independent Tuesday, ChickenAndy, who asked to be identified only by his username, claimed that he did not know anyone had died when the group began their livestream and photoshoot at the crash site.
open image in galleryHe said he wouldn’t take the footage or photo posts down.
“I feel like if I take it down, it makes me more of a, like, criminal,” he said. “I’d be more … trying to hide something. I don’t think I did anything wrong. I’m not hiding from anything.”
He added: “I did not film any bodies, and I would never film a body. When people lose their lives, it’s a pretty big deal. I just lost my grandpa recently, so it’s a very serious thing for sure. Obviously, prayers to the ones that got lost.”
ChickenAndy also claimed he would sue the airline for defamation.
“I’m contemplating suing the airlines because I’ve lost a lot from posting that photo without knowing what had happened. I’ve been getting a lot of backlash, I’m making less money than I usually do, and I’ve lost a big following. I don’t think I should be getting this much heat over the situation, so I’m looking into getting a lawyer and potentially coming after Amazon Airlines for defamation,” he added.
BinxBasilisk did not respond to a request for comment from The Independent.
open image in galleryPortions of ChickenAndy’s Kick livestream from the site have been shared on X. In one clip, someone off camera can be heard saying: “You can’t get too close. That’s a crime scene.”
“Oh, I understand. We won’t touch it,” ChickenAndy responded, which he captioned Sunday at 9:30 p.m: “Prayers to the family who lost their loved ones.”
ChickenAndy told The Independent that the person issuing the warning was with the fire department and standing at a nearby fire truck.
open image in gallery“He was like, ‘Hey, don’t get too close,’ But he didn’t mind [we were there.] I walked up to him, and he’s like, ‘Yeah, just don’t get too close. It’s a crime scene, so don’t touch it or anything,’” the streamer said.
In the clip, ChickenAndy can then be heard saying: “Alright, we gotta get out of here. We’re cooked.”
He adds: “We missed out on the biggest photo opp ever.”
open image in galleryAnother voice then points out that the Kick livestream captured the streamers posing in front of the jet, and suggests they take a screenshot to use as a photo.
On the stream, they can be seen looking at the image, and a female voice believed to be BinxBasilisk appears to approve and zoom in.
“That’s kind of fire … This is good, no, we got something,” she says.
The five victims of the plane crash were identified Tuesday as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, Julio C. Pineda, 75, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.