San Diego, private plane crashes on the houses: « In the accident several dead »
The accident in the middle of the night: several families of soldiers live in the San Diego district, and the jet caught fire. The conditions, at the time of the crash, were complicated by the fog
A private jet fell into the middle of the night on the outskirts of San Diego among the houses of a neighborhood where several families of soldiers live.
In the impact The aircraft caught fire and set out about ten homes.
There would be different victims: it is not at the clear moment as many and if among the passengers of the flight or even among the residents. The weather conditions, at the time of the crash, were complicated by the fog that significantly reduced visibility.
The plane, a Cessna 550 with a capacity of 8-10 passengers« He crashed near the Montgomery Executive Airport around 3:45 am on Thursday », confirmed the local authorities (12:45 in Italy). According to the Flighttradar24 flight tracking site, He had taken off from Teterboro airport, near New York. He then made a stop of about an hour in Wichita, Kansas, and then continue towards San Diego.
About 5 kilometers from the destination, according to the audio reports provided by the Specialized Liveatc site, the pilot announced via radio to the other aircraft nearby that the cessna was preparing to land along track 28 of the Montgomery-Gibs Executive Airport. The jet would not report problems.
At night the airport has no flight controllers and so commanders and first officers must report their presence and their intentions to other colleagues nearby. The meteorological bulletin, at the time of the accident, showed one visibility was reduced to about 850 meters.
« I can’t find words To describe the scene we witnessed, « the chief of the San Diego police chief, Scott Wahl said at the press conference. «With the kerosene flowing on the streets and all on fire at the same time, It was really horrible to see».
Local authorities have not known the identities of the occupants of the plane. From the control of the aeronautical registers carried out by Courier It turns out that the jet was owned by Dadentar LLC with main headquarters in Alaska. The same Denciator LLC In the corporate databases of the American state It is managed by David Shapiro who is manager of several famous musical bands in the USA.
From the little information, recover the jet on his last moments on the last moments was flying at 225 kilometers speed hours and 150 meters above sea level. But theapproach to the track it would be the experts « Extremely unstable »with what is defined as « Unjustified oscillation of vertical speed ». The impact took place 2,600 meters before the airport track.
Both Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board investigate both the accident. The San Diego police also made available a telephone number to ask residents to call whether they find scrap of the plane or traces of kerosene nearby.
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