The pilot of the private jet that crashed early Thursday morning in Tierrasanta, killing all six people on board and injuring eight people on the ground, did not declare an emergency or call in any type of mechanical issue with the plane before it clipped a power line and slammed into a residential street, federal authorities said Friday.

Daniel Williams, a founding member of The Devil Wears Prada, posted photos of himself sitting in the cockpit of the doomed Cessna 550 plane just hours before it crashed in a fireball early Thursday, killing all six people on board, including music industry big shot David Shapiro.

A plane crash in San Diego's Tierrasanta killed at least three people, including music executive David Shapiro, and displaced nearly 100 residents amid devastation.

A drummer who was a founding member of a popular American hard rock band has been killed the crash of a private plane. Daniel Williams, the former drummer of the metalcore group The Devil Wears Prada, died in the crash in San Diego. Also killed was top music industry agent David Shapiro, the New York Post reported.

In the stillness of night, a quiet, tree-lined street in a San Diego neighborhood was plunged into chaos when a plane clipped a power line and crashed – turning cars into fireballs and sending residents fleeing in a haze of smoke and confusion.