San Diego (AP) – private The plane is approaching the airport whose lights were out in a heavy fog In the neighborhood in San Diego, he killed six people on board, including the pioneering manager of alternative music Dave Shapiro.
Crash stunned The scene of heavy metals and hard rock, which grew from the punk movement. The music agency, which Shapiro Corounded, Sound Talent Group, represented groups like Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive and Sum 41, but also embarked on more pop acts like Vanessa Carlton.
It may take a year to accurately solve what happened to the plane, but investigators know that there has been a dense fog, problems with the track lights and the broken weather system, said Dan Baker from the National Transport Safety Council.
Baker said that the plane and passengers were killed in the accident, but that no one on the ground was killed or seriously injured.
The authorities did not publish the names of all six victims, but those identified, included a drummer and two employees of the Sound Talent Group who shared Shapir’s love for music.
Here is what to know about them and accident:
It was a connection Shapiro, 42, He made more than the music he played, thanks to which he was successful.
He got into the music industry that played in the band – counting with the stars – who founded high school friends.
Shapiro helped bring the alternative scene of the underground $ 10-A-show in 2010 to the mainstream. But it was also huge in creating a community, said Mike Shea, founder of Alternative Press Magazine.
“There are only too many people in this music industry who tear people and use people,” he said. “Dave wasn’t like that.”
Shapiro was listed as a plane owner and had a pilot license. Officials did not say who was flying by plane.
Both Fortner, 24 years old, and Huke, 25, joined Shapir’s agency as reservation collaborators after graduation at university, according to their BIOS released Sound Talent Group, which confirmed that both women are on the plane.
Fortner “was dependent on music” from a young age thanks to her father who took her to concerts, and she showed interest in working in the music industry as a teenager.
Huke also knew from a young age that he wanted to work in the music industry.
“There was nothing that Emma loved more than live music,” the agency said, working hard to save money to participate in concerts and festivals.
The agency said both Fortner and Huke were good in their work, including planning tours.
Koroner’s office in San Diego as one of the victims was identified by the fifth passenger, 36 -year -old Celina Marie Rose Kenyon. Kenyon was not an employee of the Sound Talent Group, the agency spokesman confirmed Saturday.
He was also killed by Daniel Williams, a former drummer for the popular Ohio Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, celebrated for their ability to marry with melodic punk rock with a metal detour.
When Williams was “in the band, they broke out,” Shea said.
Thomas Gutches, who manages rock groups and artists, remembered the ability of Williams to attract the audience at exhibitions by his drumming as well as the band frontman.
“Daniel was showing a show of his style of playing,” he said.
The Devil Wears Prada was a client of the Sound Talent Group.
The plane was directed from New Jersey to San Diego after a stop in Kansas. It fell about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from San Diego’s Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. Eight people on Earth were injured, none seriously.
Quote Cessna 550 went down After hitting the electric line, Baker said.
The aircraft pilot recognized the air traffic manager that the weather was not ideal and discussed to divert to another airport, according to the sound of the conversation published Liveatc.net.
The Federal Aviation Administration published an official announcement that the lamps of the runway on Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport were out. The pilot did not discuss it with the driver, but he mentioned that he knew that the weather warning system was not working.
“It doesn’t sound great, but we’ll do it,” he told the air traffic control.
The fog was so strong at the time of the accident that “you could hardly see in front of you,” said San Diego, head of the fire brigade.
The US saw his The deadliest crash of the aircraft At the age of 23 in January, when the American Airlines and the US Army Helicopter collided in Washington. The accident killed every passenger on every plane, a total of 67 people.
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In Philadelphia, a medical aircraft that just took off fell to the neighborhood At the end of January, he killed all six people on board and two people on the ground.
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