Jet, the David Shapiro and 5 other fog and no landing lights at San Diego Airport

San Diego (AP) – The runway lights were no longer, a weather warning system was not working and there was heavy fog at an airport in San Diego when a pilot that had flown through the country made the decision to continue with landing, but was too short and fell into a neighborhood.

Investigator Dan Baker from the National Transportation Safety Board said that the officials will work next year to determine what the Cessna 550 quote crashed shortly before Thursday at 4 a.m. The jet wore a music manager and five more. Nobody in the neighborhood of the US marine housing died, but eight people were treated from the fiery crash and non-life-threatening injuries due to smoke inhalation.

The pilot confirmed that the weather conditions for landing at the small airport were not ideal and discussed, while he discussed visibility with an air traffic controller in a regional tax tower of the aviation administration, according to the Audio of the conversation from the conversation published by the conversation Liveatc.net.

The FAA had published an official message for pilots that the lights were out of service, but it is not known whether the pilot had checked it. He did not discuss the lights that were equipped with the air traffic control, but was aware that the airport's weather warning system was not operational. Ultimately, the pilot can be heard that he will stick to the plan to land on the Montgomery-GibBS-Executive Airport.

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

The plane crashed about 3.22 kilometers from the airport.

Baker said that a electricity tax had switched off the weather system at the airport, but the fog was aware of the pilot, and an air traffic controller gave him weather information from the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, about 4 miles (6.44 kilometers) to the north.

Musical day Dave Shapiro, And two employees of the music agency, which he co-founded, Sound Talent Group, were among the dead together with the former drummer of the metal band The Devil Wears Prada. Shapiro, 42, had a pilot license and was listed as the owner of the aircraft.

The two died employees were Kendall Fortner (24) and Emma Huke (25), both natives in Southern California and booking employees for the agency.

The crash was added to a Long list of aviation disaster This year during Federal civil servants have tried to calm travelers down This flight is the safest means of transport to support statistics.

Shapiro's aircraft started on Wednesday at 11:15 p.m. by Teterboro, New Jersey, near Manhattan, and made a fuel stop in Wichita, Kansas before driving to San Diego. He returned to San Diego after a band he managed, Pierce The Veil, played for a sold -out audience in Madison Square Garden.

This schedule for overnight stays would not be permitted for a airline for the federal occupation residues, but these regulations do not apply to private aircraft.

Dan Eddy, deputy head of the San Diego fire brigade, said that the fog was so thick in the morning that “you can hardly see in front of them”.

The former investigator of NTSB and FAA crash investigator Jeff Guzzetti said he thinks that the dense fog and tiredness of the pilot had flown all night.

“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 that the crew could have been going.”

He said pilots have to check the FAA posts, which are referred to as communications, to planes that draw the pilots aware of problems such as landing lights.

“It is pretty easy for the pilot to get this information and you have to receive this information before every flight he takes,” said Guzzetti.

The pilot would probably have noticed that the lights did not work when it descended. Without lights, the procedure dictated that he should have climbed and redirect to another airport, said Guzzetti.

Fragments of the level were found under power lines that are about half a block away from the houses. It 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.

A terrible wake up

The crash site shows more damage to the front of houses, including a smashed stone landscape wall and a burned truck that was parked across 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,” McCarty, who has been working in the Navy for 13 years. said local ABC partner KGTV.

Flames blocked many of the outputs, so that they packed their children and dogs and fight 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 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.

McCarty said his family enjoyed living under the flight path so that they could say goodbye to the planes over their heads.

“We and our children sat on our veranda and we looked up and my sons were always excited and said that the plane passed the planes and ironically exactly where we were sitting, where this plane was hit,” said McCarty.

Now he wants to move.

“I'm not going to live over this airline again – it will be difficult to sleep at night,” said McCarty.

It could have been much worse

Guzzetti said that, in his experience, there are often no deaths on the ground when an aircraft crashes in a residential area, unless people are exactly where the plane meets, as in Philadelphia In January.

At least 100 residents of the quarter of San Diego were evacuated and the officials said it was unclear when it would be safe for people to return.

The crash on Thursday only comes to A for weeks A small plane crashed into a neighborhood in the Simi -Valley Northwest of Los Angeles and killed both humans and a dog on board the aircraft, but don't let anyone on the floor injured.

A twin plane in October 2021 plowed into a suburb in San DiegoKill the pilot and a UPS supplier on the ground and kill burning houses.

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Funk contributed to this report by Omaha, Nebraska.