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New York Post
8 hours ago
- General
- New York Post
6 missing after small plane crashes ‘nose first, straight into the water' off San Diego
Six people are missing after a small plane crashed into the ocean off San Diego on Sunday, authorities said. The twin-engine Cessna 414 went down roughly 3 miles west of the southern California city at 12:30 p.m. — shortly after take off, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Coast Guard was still searching for those on board after debris was found scattered in the sea near the Point Loma neighborhood, officials said. The water in the vicinity is about 200 feet deep. 4 A helicopter searching for six people who are missing after a small plane crashed off the coast of San Diego. KUSI 4 The twin-engine Cessna 414 went 'nose first' into the water three miles from the city's coast. KUSI The pilot had told air traffic controllers that he was struggling to climb in the moments after taking off, according to Live ATC audio. The controller urged the pilot to climb to 4,000 feet after he reported the plane was only about 1,000 feet in the air. The controller then directed him to land at a nearby US naval airport, according to the audio. Moments later, the pilot repeatedly signaled the 'Mayday' distress call before controllers lost radar contact. A man who was out surfing when the plane went down told NBC 7 that he saw the aircraft plummet at an angle, then climb back into the clouds before diving again and crashing into the water. 4 A map of where the plane crashed near San Diego. FlightAware; FAA/AP 'The next time he came out of the clouds, he went straight into the water. But after I saw this splash, about 6 seconds later, it was dead silent. I knew that they went in the water, nose first, at a high speed,' said the witness, Tyson Wislofsky. The plane was en route to Phoenix, Ariz., at the time, according to data from the flight-tracking website Start and end your day informed with our newsletters Morning Report and Evening Update: Your source for today's top stories Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters The names of those on board weren't immediately released by authorities. The plane was apparently owned by Arizona-based vitamin and nutritional supplement maker Optimal Health Systems, the feds said. 4 The Coast Guard searching for the missing passengers. KUSI But the company said it had sold the plane to a group of private individuals in 2023, although it knew some of those on board at the time of the crash. 'We personally know several of the passengers onboard and our sincerest condolences are offered to those affected by the tragedy, all of whom are incredible members of our small community,' the company's founder, Doug Grant, said in a statement. With Post wires
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Devil Wears Prada drummer's final Instagram post showed him in the cockpit hours before tragedy
The last Instagram post by The Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams showed him in the cockpit of a plane hours before it crashed in a fireball into several homes in San Diego. Williams, 39, who played in the Christian metal-core group between 2005 and 2016 before working for GoPro, was on board the small Cessna 550 that crashed into the Murphy Canyon neighborhood in the early hours of Thursday morning. Authorities said they fear all six passengers on board, including music agent Dave Shapiro, 42, who owned the light corporate jet, had died in the crash that led to the evacuation of 100 people and 15 homes and cars engulfed in flame. At least two fatalities had been confirmed and eight others injured. Sitting on the tarmac before takeoff at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, Williams posted a series of photographs to his Instagram story. 'Flying back with @davelocity,' he said, standing outside the private plane. 'Hey. Hey… you.. Look at me… I'm the (co)pilot now,' he wrote from behind the wheel of the plane in the cockpit. 'Here we goooooo,' he said in a third. Williams's father, Larry, confirmed to TMZ that his son was on the flight and had most likely died. He also said that his son did not have a pilot's license. The Devil Wears Prada took to social media to lament the loss of its former drummer. 'No words. We owe you everything. Love you forever,' it read, alongside a collage of photos of Williams. 'This hurts really bad,' wrote the band's guitarist Jeremy DePoyster. 'Rest easy boys. I love you. We'll see each other again.' Lead guitarist Kyle Sipress reshared a photo of Williams overlaid with 'forever family.' According to NBC San Diego, the aircraft was heading to San Diego's Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport after a quick fuel stop in Kansas during its 2700-mile journey. A final transmission from the flight revealed the jet's pilot notifying passengers that they were about 3 miles from the airport, according to audio recordings on LiveATC. The controller said visibility was about half a mile, and the cloud ceiling was 200 feet. 'All right, that doesn't sound great, but we'll give it a go,' the pilot responded. Though there was no sign of a problem or emergency being declared, the plane plunged from the sky about 30 minutes later. The full scale of damage came into view later Thursday, as officials inspected the skeleton of a home with a gaping hole caused by the plane's impact. The destruction stretched for at least a quarter mile down the residential street. San Diego Fire Assistant Chief Dan Eddy noted, however, that it was a 'miracle' that no local residents were killed.
Times
20-05-2025
- General
- Times
Audio reveals ominous moment pilot lost contact with Newark
The pilot of a commercial jet approaching New York City's second-busiest airport was greeted with an ominous silence when he tried to contact air traffic controllers during a communications failure. 'Approach, are you there?' the pilot of a United Airlines aircraft said, according to a recording by the website The flight from New Orleans was nearing its destination of Newark airport in New Jersey last Monday as the pilot tried repeatedly to contact controllers during the approach. At last, one responded: 'United 1951, how do you hear me?' Air traffic controllers in Philadelphia, who were responsible for managing flights arriving at and departing from Newark, found themselves unable to see or talk to the pilots as their communication systems failed. The 'outage', said by
CNN
12-05-2025
- CNN
Air traffic control staffing continues to cause delays at Newark Liberty International Airport
Delays continue to affect flights at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday morning, averaging about 19 minutes at 9 a.m., according to an advisory from the FAA. For two weeks, short staffing at an air traffic control facility in Philadelphia, which handles flights headed to or departing from the airport, has caused the delays. As CNN previously reported, at least five controllers there took 45 days of trauma leave after losing radar and radio communication during the busy afternoon of April 28. The facility, called PHL TRACON Area C, also saw outages of air traffic control systems early Friday morning and again on Sunday. On Friday at 3:55 a.m. controllers at the facility lost radio contact and radar for about 90 seconds. Then on Sunday, another 'telecommunications issue' led to controllers stopping planes heading to Newark from taking off for about 45 minutes while the FAA said it 'ensured redundancies were working as designed.' In total, there have been at least four outages at PHL TRACON Area C since November, including the three in the last two weeks. 'Newark, just so you know, we're all rooting for you for better equipment and more staffing,' a pilot radioed the approach controller Sunday, about the same time as flights headed to the airport were stopped. 'Hey man, we appreciate it, thanks,' the controller responded on the radio frequency recorded by the website Newark is not the only FAA facility dealing with equipment problems and short staffing. Separately, Sunday, the FAA slowed air traffic into Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport due to a problem with runway equipment. Some 1,337 flights, which made up 55% of the planes arriving and departing, were delayed, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Also Sunday, FAA staffing shortages at the control tower in Austin, Texas, also led to 145 flights, nearly 20%, to be behind schedule.
BBC News
07-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
New audio reveals moment Newark air traffic radar goes dark
'Approach, are you there?' - Audio reveals moment air traffic radar goes dark US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that communications were lost for 30 seconds, and that no planes were in danger. The tense moments at Newark Liberty International Airport led to multiple employees going on trauma leave, contributing to hundreds of delayed flights. The pilot called out five separate times over a span of 30 seconds before the control tower was able to respond, the audio recorded by reveals. Newly-released audio reveals the moment air traffic controllers at one of New York's busiest airports lost communications with planes under their control - leaving one pilot asking, "Approach, are you there?". A few others have estimated that contact was lost for up to 90 seconds. "That's 90 seconds of a wholly filled-up sky of planes literally flying blind over one of America's busiest airports," said New York Senator Chuck Schumer on Tuesday. "Thank God nothing happened, but we tempt fate if no changes are made." The audio released on Tuesday by is between an air traffic control tower in Philadelphia, and pilots flying in the area around one of New York's busiest travel hubs. "Approach, are you there?" one pilot arriving from New Orleans says, to no response. After five further attempts, over thirty seconds, the tower responds: "I got you loud and clear." At another point, the control tower tells a United Airlines pilot: "I am gonna move you here because I just got told that the approach lost all the radars." "Three of their four radar screens went black and they have no frequencies." The pilot is heard calmly responding: "Alright, we're ready to move." The incident on 28 April contributed to hundreds of delayed flights that continued into Tuesday. Secretary Duffy said the outage was "a sign that we have a frail system in place, and it has to be fixed". The Federal Aviation Administration also acknowledged in a statement that "our antiquated air traffic control system is affecting our work force". Air traffic control operations at the airport in New Jersey have come under sustained criticism recently. Last week, United Airlines announced it was cancelling 35 flights per day from its Newark schedule because the airport "cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there".
