What we know about the plane crash that alternative music director Dave Shapiro killed

San Diego (AP) – A plane crash in San Diego, in which six people were probably killed, including the groundbreaking alternative music manager Dave Shapiro, competed when the private aircraft approached an airport whose run -up lights were in heavy fog.

It could take a year to clarify exactly what happened to the plane, which crashed into a neighborhood shortly before Thursday at 4 a.m. However, the investigators know that there were thick fog, problems with the runway lights and a system with broken weather, Dan Baker said from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Shapiro's death stunned the heavy metal and hard rock scene, which emerged from the punk movement. The music agency, with which he was co-founding of the sound talent group, represented groups such as Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive, Sum 41, but also ventured into more pop acts such as Hanson and Vanessa Carlton.

Daniel Williams, a former drummer of the popular Ohio Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada and two employees of Shapiros Sound Talent Group Agency: Kendall Fortner, 24, and Emma Huke, 25, were also killed.

The plane crash

After a stop in Kansas from New Jersey, the plane drove to San Diego. It crashed about 3 kilometers from San Diego from San Diego from Montgomery Gibbs Airport. Eight people on the floor were injured, no serious.

The first reports stated that the Cessna 550 quote may have dropped into the power lines after getting in, but the federal investigators did not confirm this information.

The aircraft's pilot confirmed that the weather was not ideal and discussed from the audio from the audio from the audio.

Airport problems

The Federal Aviation Administration recorded an official announcement that the runway lights on the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport were no longer. The pilot did not discuss this with the controller, but mentioned that he knew that the airport's weather warning system did not work.

“Sounds good, but we'll try it,” he told the air traffic controller.

The fog was so thick in the time of the crash that “they could hardly see them in front of them,” said Dan Eddy, deputy head of the San Diego fire brigade.

Officials did not say who flew the plane. Shapiro was performed as the owner of the aircraft and had a pilot license.

A pillar in the music industry

Shapiro, 42, stood into the music industry that played in the band Count With Stars, and founded with friends in the high school. It was the connections he made more than the music he played that made him successful.

Shapiro helped bring the underground alternative scene of $ 10 to the mainstream in the 2010s. But he was also enormous in creating a community, said Mike Shea, founder of “Alternative Press”.

“In this music industry there are simply too many people who tear down people and use people,” he said. “Dave wasn't like that. He was a beautiful soul and a beautiful person, a manager, just someone who would be an inspiration.”

Despite all his famous customers, Shapiro remained warm, real and interested in bringing new bands to a wide audience.

“He heard every band who put them in front of him to give them a chance,” said Dayna Ghiraldi-Trach, founder of the Big Picture Media of the Public Relations Agency, who worked with Shapiro for over 15 years.

Challenging year for the US air ride

In January, the United States saw its fatal aircraft crash in more than 23 years when a passenger jet of the American Airlines and a helicopter from the US Army collided in Washington. The crash killed every passenger in every plane, a total of 67 people.

A sightseeing helicopter broke apart and plunged into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey last month and killed six people, while a small commuter plane crashed in Westalaska in early February and killed all 10 people on board.

In Philadelphia, a medical transport aircraft fell that had just fallen into a neighborhood at the end of January and had killed all six people on board.

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