Cause of San Diego aircraft crash unclear | The Arkansa's democrat gazette

San Diego – The Weather Alert System and the lights of the runway did not work on a foggy airport in San Diego, where a private jet landed to a quarter before the crash, but the cause of the crash remains unclear to the investigators on Friday.

Dan Baker from the National Transportation Safety Board also said that the crash on Thursday probably all six people killed on board.

Baker said that the weather warning system on the Montgomery GibBS Executive Airport was on the time of the crash due to an unrorned electricity. He said that the pilot had received about 4 miles north of the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar instead, but he was aware of the fog. The plane tried to land at the airport when it hit power lines and fell off about 2 miles southeast of the airfield, said Elliot Simpson from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The music talent agent Dave Shapiro and two unnamed employees of the music agency, which he co-founded by the sound talent group, were among the dead together with the former drummer of the metal band The Devil Wears Prada. The 42 -year -old Shapiro had a pilot license and was listed as the owner of the Cessna 550 quote from 1985, which plunged into a neighborhood of the US Navy Housing shortly before Thursday at 4 a.m.

The crash is followed by a long list of aviation disasters this year. This includes a collision in the middle, in which 67 people were killed near Washington, DC in January. An airplane that cut another plane in February while he was racing at Seattle Airport; And a sightseeing helicopter that combined the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey last month and killed six people.

The flight started on Wednesday at 11:15 p.m. by Teterboro, New Jersey, and made it in Wichita, Kan., He continued to San Diego.

The former investigator of NTSB and FAA Crash, Jeff Guzzetti, said he thinks the dense fog and the fatigue after Shapiro had flown all night are probably factors in the crash.

“This accident has all the ear markers of a classic attempt to approach an airport in really bad weather and poor visibility,” said Guzzetti. “And there were other airports to which the crew could have started.”

Fragments of the level were found from the houses for about half a block of the houses. It then lost a wing on the street directly behind the houses. Guzzetti said that even if the plane had missed the power lines, it may have fallen over because it was too low in the fog.

The crash site shows more damage to the front of the houses, including a smashed stone landscape wall and a burned truck that was parked on the other side of the street and pushed into the living room of the owner's house before it caught fire.

Ben McCarty and his wife, who lived in the house who was hit, said they felt everywhere around them after they had been woken up by an explosion.

“Everything I could see was a fire. The roof of the house was still on fire. You could see the night sky from our living room,” said McCarty, who has been working in the Navy for 13 years, to the local ABC partner -KGTV.

Flames blocked many of the outputs, so they packed their children and dogs and ran their backs, but the burning debris blocked the gate, so that the neighbors helped them climb over their fence to escape.

“We jumped over the fence and then over the fence. They brought a ladder with us and we have the dogs,” said McCarty.

In the meantime, the fiery jet fuel rolled down the block and inflamed everything in his way from trees to plastic waste containers to the car for the car.

McCartys at home was the only one that was destroyed, even though another 10 residences had suffered damage, the authorities said. Eight inhabitants were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and injuries that were not life -threatening, including a person who was injured from a window, said the officer Anthony Carrasco.