(23 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Diego – 23 May 2025
1. Mid of investigators examining the site of a plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Baker, National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge:
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"We have determined that the Automated Surface Observing System, which provides airport weather conditions to pilots, was inoperative at the Montgomery Airport at the time of accident due to an unrelated power surge. Air traffic control provided the pilot the weather conditions at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar before he began the approach to Montgomery Airport. The weather at Miramar was briefed as wind calm, 1.5 mile visibility, and 200 foot ceiling. Miramar is located about four miles north of the Montgomery Airport. We have also determined that there were notices to air mission, also called NOTAMs, in effect at the time of the accident that stated the Runway 28R precision approach path indicator and Runway28R medium intensity approach light system with runway alignment indicator lights at Montgomery Airport were out of service."
3. Mid of investigator examining the wreckage of a burnt vehicle at the site of the plane crash
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Baker, National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge:
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"We will not be determining a probable cause or providing any analysis at this time."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Diego – 22 May 2025
5. Mid aerial of damaged home and cars
STORYLINE:
The weather alert system and runway lights weren’t working at a foggy San Diego airport where a private jet was planning to land before it crashed into a neighborhood, but the cause of the crash remains unclear, officials said Friday.
Dan Baker of the National Transportation Safety Board also said investigators haven’t determined a cause of Thursday’s crash that likely killed all six people aboard.
Baker said the weather alert system at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport was down at the time of the crash due to an unrelated power surge. He said the pilot instead got weather information from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar about 4 miles (6.44 kilometers) north, but he was aware of the fog.
The runway lights were also down.
The plane crashed about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) from the airport.
Music talent agent Dave Shapiro, and two unnamed employees of the music agency he co-founded, Sound Talent Group, were among the dead along with the former drummer for metal band The Devil Wears Prada. Shapiro, 42, had a pilot’s license and was listed as the owner of the 1985 Cessna 550 Citation that plowed into the neighborhood of U.S. Navy housing shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday.
The crash added to a long list of aviation disasters this year. They include a midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C., in January, an airliner that clipped another plane in February while taxiing at the Seattle airport and a sightseeing helicopter that broke apart and crashed into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey last month, killing six people.
AP video by Eugene Garcia
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