(22 May 2025)
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San Diego – 22 May 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliott Simpson, NTSB Aviation Accident Investigator:
“So, the airplane was a 1985 Cessna 550 Citation, registration number November 666 Delta Sierra. It departed Teterboro last night at about 11.15 PM and made a fuel stop in Wichita and then was inbound, we presume, based on the flight path for landing. Into Montgomery field runway 28R. It struck power lines about two miles southeast of the airport, then collided with a house. We have an unknown number of occupants on board, and an unknown amount of fatalities on board the airplane. No fatalities on the ground. We do have a few ground injuries.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliott Simpson, NTSB Aviation Accident Investigator:
(Reporter: “What kinds of things are you finding on the ground as far as parts of the plane?”)
“So we found fragments of the airplane that are not yet to be identified underneath the initial power lines and then we do have a wing on the road just on the other side here and the remainder of the wreckage appears to be on the street just behind you.”
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STORYLINE:
Authorities are investigating why a private plane crashed just before 4 a.m. Thursday in San Diego, killing an unknown number of passengers on the plane, damaging homes and igniting cars in the U.S. military’s largest housing neighborhood.
Several residents were injured while trying to flee as flames raced down a single street and others were treated for smoke inhalation. No one was injured too severely to need to be transported to a hospital, authorities said.
At least 100 residents were moved to a nearby elementary school serving as an evacuation center, the San Diego Police Department said.
The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the private plane.
Shapiro is listed as the owner of the plane and has a pilot’s license, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Shapiro also owned a flight school called Velocity Aviation and a record label, Velocity Records, according to his LinkedIn page.
The agency didn’t share the names of the other two employees who died.
The crash is under investigation by the federal National Transportation Safety Board.
Debris from the scene indicates that the plane clipped power lines before slamming into the house, according to NTSB Aviation Accident Investigator, Eliott Simpson.
The plane was headed from New Jersey to San Diego after a fueling stop in Kansas. It crashed about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from San Diego’s Montgomery-Gibbs Executive airport.
Authorities still are not able to provide information about the pilot or possible black box recordings.
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