Ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams posted haunting photos inside cockpit of doomed private jet hours before deadly crash
Former The Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams shared haunting photos inside the cockpit of the private plane that would later crash in a San Diego neighborhood, killing the rocker and music industry big shot David Shapiro.In his first post, Williams tagged Shapiro and snapped a picture of the doomed Cessna 550 aircraft before they boarded on the runway at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on Wednesday night.“Flying back with @davevelocity,” the drummer captioned the post on his Instagram story.Williams, who was an original member of the band, was also seen inside the cockpit of the private plane in two of his posts.“Hey.Hey… you… look at me… I’m the (co)pilot now,” Williams, 39, wrote with a view of the aircraft controls and windshield.“Here we goooooo,” the second post reads, with the yoke between his legs.Williams and Shapiro were among six people on board the jet when it hit a power line in foggy weather and crashed in Murphy Canyon, a San Diego neighborhood housing military families, around 3:45 a.m.
Thursday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.Officials have yet to ID all on board, but said there were no survivors.Miraculously, no one on the ground was killed or seriously wounded. Williams’ former Devil Wears Prada band members confirmed the 39-year-old’s death in social media posts Thursday. “No words.
We owe you everything.Love you forever,” the band wrote in an Instagram post.Williams joined The Devil Wears Prada during its inception in 2005 before he left the band in 2016.Just a week before he was killed, Williams revealed that he had accepted an engineering job at Apple.“I’m very excited to share that I’ve accepted a software engineering role at Apple.
It’s been really tough to say goodbye to my friends and colleagues of nearly 8 years at GoPro, but it’s time for my next chapter.It’s time to help build the future,” he wrote in the May 14 post.Williams’ death also comes six years after h...