San Diego Airport experienced disorders before fatal aircraft crash

The investigators investigate whether foggy conditions and technical breakdowns at a San Diego airport, which cut off lights that are supposed to guide pilots, played a role in a fatal plane crash.

A Cessna 550 crashed into a residential area early Thursday, burned cars and destroyed at least one house.

According to the authorities, all six are viewed on board dead, including a former drummer of the rock band The Devil Wears Prada and a top -class music agent.

The National Transportation Safety Board examines a mixture of information and said that the plane had no flight data recorder that would have provided further information. Officials have not yet found which factors have led to the crash.

In a press conference on Friday, the NTSB investigator Dan Baker said that the agency receives help from the FBI because it works to collect and maintain evidence from the scene.

He said the investigators found that the plane had made high -voltage lines before he fell into the houses to the Murphy Canyon district, about two miles from Montgomery Field Airport, where the plane drove.

The airport, a small regional airport with three runways, had two separate problems at the time of the crash, said Baker. The automated surface observation station, which provides pilots weather data, was “not functional at the time of the accident due to a non -related power committee”.

At that time, foggy conditions were reported throughout the region.

Mr. Baker attributed the failure to “a kind of technical error”, but warned that it is unclear whether this contributed to the crash, since not all airports are equipped with this system.

The airport had also submitted a message to pilots referred to as a notam, and informed them that one of the landingways had experienced a problem with the lighting system that headed the landing aircraft.

The pilot of the dilapidated aircraft was aimed at this runway in the crash, said Baker.

The pilot did not report any problems in air control and never explained an emergency, said Baker.

The Cessna was not equipped with a flight data recorder and the civil servants examined whether a cockpit language recorder may have on board a cockpit language recorder.

The crash occurred at 3:45 a.m. local time (10:45 GMT) and about 100 people had to be evacuated from the neighborhood, which is located northeast of the city of San Diego.

Eight people on site were injured, including one who was taken to the hospital.

A preliminary report by the NTSB is expected to be published within 30 days, with a final report in the next 12 to 24 months.