Has thick fog played a role in the plane crash of San Diego? What we know about the fatal accident

Six people are suspected as dead after a jet aircraft came into a residential area in San Diego County in the middle of dense fog on Thursday morning, but the investigators have not yet released the names of those.

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the investigation into what has led to the fiery crash in the Tierrasanta district. The Federal Authority expects that it will announce additional information about your investigation on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m.

The San Diego County's medical examiner has not identified none of the victims in the crash. A spokesman for the office expects at least two names to be published on Friday.

So far we know the following:

What happened

A Cessna 550 jet, which can be accommodated up to 10 people, started on Wednesday at 11:15 p.m. from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and, according to Flight Tracking Site, held flightsware for almost an hour in Wichita. The plane was led to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, a general Aviation Airport, which belonged to the city of San Diego and is less than three miles from the crash site.

Around 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, the Jet took on the airport. The pilot announced on the radio that the plane was three miles away from landing on the Landesbahn 28, according to a recording of LiveAtc.net. The pilot has not signaled any problems with the plane and did not issue an emergency call in the records checked by the Times.

According to the authorities, the crash was reported about seven minutes later.

Effects and bad conditions

The aircraft hit the power lines about two miles before it affects a house in the residential area in the Murphy Canyon area, a quarter that consists of military apartments.

Jet fuel and debris spread in the neighborhood. At least eight people suffered minor injuries and one person was taken to the hospital, said the deputy head of the San Diego fire brigade on Wednesday.

The exact measurement, where the aircraft's debris fell, was still determined by the investigators.

“There is aircraft everywhere,” said Eddy, naming the scene a “gigantic rubble field”.

Eliott Simpson, an investigator for senior aviation accidents for the NTSB, said that the plane had flown under “very bad weather conditions”.

The dense fog had rolled up in the area when the plane approached the airport. The visibility was half a mile at 3:55 a.m. and shortly after 4 a.m. on a quarter mile in the area around the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which, according to the National Weather Service, is only a few miles north of the crash location.

“We had a sea layer that was deep enough that the clouds got into some of the valleys this morning,” said Adam Roser, meteorologist of the National Weather Service in San Diego. “This one kind of the ocean put into the valley and led to some of these foggy conditions.”

losses

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that six people were on board the jet. Officials said it was probably that nobody had survived but had not published any total number of victims from the crash.

At least two people were identified by colleagues, including Dave Shapiro, co -founder of the Sound Talent Group, a music agency in San Diego County, and Daniel Williams, who released on Wednesday afternoon on his Instagram that he would go on a plane with Shapiro. Williams is the former drummer of the metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. The band has posted a tribute to Williams and Shapiro on their Facebook page.

The Sound Talent Group confirmed to the time that three of its employees died in the crash.

In a statement, the company said: “We are destroyed by the loss of our co -founder, colleagues and friends.