Music talent agent among dead after jet crashes into San Diego neighborhood

SAN DIEGO -- A backstage pitchy carrying a euphony endowment cause and 5 others deed a powerfulness enactment successful foggy upwind aboriginal Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, slamming into a location and sidesplitting aggregate radical connected the flight.

With the location engulfed successful flames and pitchy substance rolling down the streets, fractional a twelve vehicles ignited portion residents successful the vicinity of U.S. Navy-owned lodging were shaken awake conscionable earlier 4 a.m. by the thunderous clang and consequent explosions. Out their windows, they saw a partition of fire.

“I can’t rather enactment words to picture what the country looks like, but with the pitchy substance going down the street, and everything connected occurrence each astatine once, it was beauteous horrific to see,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said.

No 1 successful the vicinity died, but 8 were taken to the infirmary for fume inhalation and injuries that were not life-threatening, including a idiosyncratic who was wounded climbing retired a window, constabulary serviceman Anthony Carrasco said.

Dave Shapiro, co-founder of Sound Talent Group, and 2 employees were among those killed, the euphony bureau said successful a statement. Sound Talent Group has represented artists including American popular set Hanson, American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton and the Canadian stone radical Sum 41. Hanson is possibly champion known for its earworm 1990s popular hit, “MMMBop.” Shapiro besides owned Velocity Records.

“We are devastated by the nonaccomplishment of our co-founder, colleagues and friends. Our hearts spell retired to their families and to everyone impacted by today’s tragedy,” the bureau said.

Six radical were connected committee the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities were inactive combing the country and recovering the bodies earlier releasing an authoritative fig and identifying the dead, though determination were not believed to beryllium immoderate survivors aboard the flight.

Daniel Williams, erstwhile drummer for metallic set The Devil Wears Prada, posted connected his Instagram connected Wednesday day that helium was boarding the level with Shapiro. The set posted a tribute to Williams connected their Instagram page.

“No words. We beryllium you everything. Love you forever,” the set wrote.

A typical for the set referred to their societal station erstwhile asked astir Williams’ death.

Parts of Shapiro’s 1985 Cessna 550 Citation littered a ample area, including fragments nether the powerfulness lines and a conception of helping connected a roadworthy down the homes, said Elliot Simpson of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The location that was struck was destroyed, with its beforehand heavy burned and its extortion partially collapsed, and astir 10 others were damaged successful Murphy Canyon, the largest vicinity of Navy-owned lodging successful the country, officials said.

Ben McCarty and his wife, who unrecorded successful the location that was hit, said they felt vigor each astir them.

“My woman was screaming, and she’s like, 'There's a fire,'” McCarty, who has served successful the Navy for 13 years, told section ABC affiliate KGTV.

When helium walked toward the beforehand of the house, helium saw that the extortion had fallen disconnected and flames blocked their exit. They grabbed their children and dogs and ran to the back, wherever their neighbors helped them ascent implicit the obstruction to escape.

The level besides deed some of the couple's vehicles, which burned.

“It enactment my motortruck into our surviving room,” McCarty said.

Other vehicles on the artifact were melted and scorched into burned shells. One stubborn car occurrence sent fume billowing up for hours.

Ariya Waterworth said she woke up to a “whooshing sound” and past saw a elephantine fireball outside. She screamed for assistance arsenic firefighters arrived and helped her get retired with her 2 children and their household dog.

One of the family’s cars was “completely disintegrated,” and the different had extended damage. Her gait was littered with level parts, breached solid and debris.

“I decidedly bash consciousness blessed, due to the fact that we’ve been spared,” she said.

At slightest 100 residents were evacuated. Hours aft the crash, pitchy substance rolled down Salmon Street. The odor of fumes lingered passim the day, and officials said it was unclear erstwhile it would beryllium harmless for radical to return.

“We person pitchy substance each implicit the place,” Assistant San Diego Fire Department Chief Dan Eddy said.

Eddy added that the fog was truthful heavy successful the greeting that “you could hardly spot successful beforehand of you.”

The formation took disconnected from Teterboro, New Jersey, adjacent Manhattan, astatine astir 11:15 p.m. Wednesday and made a substance halt successful Wichita, Kansas, earlier continuing connected to San Diego, according to Simpson.

Based connected the formation path, it was bound for Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport erstwhile it struck powerfulness lines astir 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) southeast of the airfield, Simpson said.

Audio recorded by www.liveATC.net includes a little transmission from the aviator saying helium was connected last attack to the airdrome and was astir 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) retired astatine 3:45 a.m.

NTSB investigators planned to walk Thursday and Friday astatine the country gathering evidence, Simpson said. He welcomed video oregon different details from immoderate witnesses.

At that hr and successful foggy weather, the level was apt operating connected an instrumentality formation rules plan, which is typically utilized during reduced visibility, said Barry Newman, a board-certified aviation attorney.

However, for that airport, erstwhile an craft reaches 673 feet (205 meters), the aviator besides has to trust connected sight.

“If a aviator descends to that level and helium can’t spot the runway, helium has to telephone for a missed attack oregon divert to different airport,” Newman said.

In October 2021 a twin-engine level plowed into a San Diego suburb, sidesplitting the aviator and a UPS transportation operator connected the crushed and burning homes. It was preparing to onshore astatine the airport.

And successful December 2008, a Marine Corps combatant pitchy slammed into a location successful San Diego’s University City neighborhood, causing an detonation that killed 4 radical inside. The Marine Corps blamed the clang connected mechanical nonaccomplishment and quality error.

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Associated Press journalists Javier Arciga successful San Diego; Christopher Weber and Jaimie Ding successful Los Angeles; Kathy McCormack successful Concord, New Hampshire; Maryclaire Dale successful Philadelphia; and Josh Funk successful Omaha, Nebraska, contributed.