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Report Reveals Cause of Plane Crash That Killed Rock Star

Five others died after a small private jet crashed into San Diego’s Murphy Canyon in May.

New details have emerged about the events that led up to the plane crash which killed rock star drummer Daniel Williams in May. Williams, formerly of the metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, died when a small private jet crashed after striking a power line while flying too low towards California’s Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), cited by the Daily Mail. Music producer and agent Dave Shapiro, who was among the six people killed in the crash, is believed to have been the pilot of the doomed jet. However, the NTSB report does not specifically assign blame to him for the crash. Other factors, such as poor weather conditions, were cited as possible contributors to the plane clipping the power lines and going down. The aircraft was flying at an altitude of roughly 95 feet when it struck the lines around two miles from the airport. The Daily Mail also reports that both the airport’s weather data system and its runway lighting system were not operational during the early hours of May 22, when the Cessna 550 Citation plane was making its approach.