A early morning of this Thursday in a neighborhood in San Diego (California, United States) during a dense fog. The event has left at least three deaths and caused the fire of a dozen housing and six vehicles. The authorities evacuated during the morning a hundred people in several apples from a densely populated neighborhood. A statement from the (FAA) assured that six people were aboard the aircraft. No one on land has been seriously injured, they added.
The Sound Talent Group concert company assured through a statement that three of its employees were aboard the plane and have died in the accident. Among them is Dave Shapiro, one of the founders of the company that has represented groups such as Hanson, Sum 41, Bush, Steve Vai and Lamb of God, among others. The 42 -year -old businessman appears before the FAA as the owner of the aircraft and has a pilot license.
Sound Talent Group has not reported the name of the other two employees. However, The Devil Wears Prada, one of the numbers represented by the company, has also confirmed the death of the drums, Daniel Williams. The musician was 39 years old and has been fired by the followers of the Metalcore group, which remained active until 2016.
Dan Eddy, deputy chief of the Fire Department, had described before the press the scene that the first rescuers witnessed. “It is a gigantic rubble field. There is plane fuel everywhere,” he said at a very early press conference in the morning. “I can’t describe how the site looks, but between fuel and fire everything was quite terrible,” said Scott Wahl, San Diego’s police chief.
Although the investigation is in their early stage, the authorities have advanced to the press that they believe that the ship hit its descent high voltage cables, which could have multiplied the flames in the incident. The media have
Elliot Simpson, one of the members of the National Board of Transportation Security Board, assured the AP agency that the plane hit several high voltage cables, which could have fed the flames throughout the area of the event.
The first objective of the authorities was to “register all homes and get everyone” from their homes. The affected neighborhood, Murphy Canyon, is located in a densely populated area, a few kilometers from the center of the border city.
The authorities managed to evacuate the area in a short time and turn off most of the flames in the largest military neighborhood in the United States. Murphy Canyon houses about 2,300 apartments for the people of the service. San Diego concentrates an important number of military bases to the south of California, among these navales of San Diego and Coronado and Camp Pendelton, a few kilometers further north.
At least one residence was completely consumed by the fire and saw its roof collapse. OTHER HOUSES were damaged in the incident, but it was not necessary to transport any of its inhabitants to the hospitals in the city, although the doctors attended eight people with superficial lesions and inhale smoke and the gases of the turbosine.
Eddy said there was a lot of fog at the time of the private plane accident. “Nothing looked at each other,” he said. The Cessna 550 plane crashed around 3.45 in the morning (12.45 in peninsular Spain) near the Montgomery-Gibbs executive airport, according to the
The type of plane can transport between eight and ten people. FAA said the National Transportation Board will direct the investigation. Dan Eddy said in the morning that he rules out that rescue works find some crewman alive.
FlightTAware, a flight tracking page, states that Cessna had originally taken off from the Teterboro airport, New Jersey and then had made a scale in Wichita, Kansas at its final destination to the Montgomery-Gibbs executive terminal of San Diego, located eight kilometers from the area where the plane fell. His landing time was scheduled at 3:47 in the morning.
In October 2021, a Bimotor plane crashed into a suburb of San Diego, killing the pilot and a UPS delivery man who was on land, and causing the fire of several homes. He was preparing to land at the airport.
