A famous drummer died in a plane crash in San Diego, California, on Thursday morning after posting photos of himself on the doomed flight.
Multiple people died in the crash.
Daniel Williams, 39, posted photos of the doomed flight to his Instagram account and joked about being the co-pilot.
Williams was the drummer for a Christian band named ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and left the music industry in 2016 to become a software engineer.
Daniel Williams, the original drummer of metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, has been confirmed dead following a fatal plane crash in San Diego on the morning of May 22. He was aboard a private Cessna 550 jet that went down in a residential military housing area near… pic.twitter.com/MnpQgyt6oR
— Rock Feed (@RockFeedNet) May 22, 2025
The flight departed New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport on Wednesday night, stopped in Kansas to refuel and crashed in San Diego around 4 am.
The Cessna 550 crashed into homes and cars in a military neighborhood.
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The Daily Mail reported:
A famous drummer has died in a private jet crash that killed at least two people hours after he shared a photo of himself at its controls.
Daniel Williams, formerly of hugely-popular Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, filmed himself boarding the Cessna 550 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey late Wednesday night.
The drummer, 39, also shared pictures of him at the controls of the small aircraft, said that he was the ‘co-pilot now’. It’s unclear if he was joking.
An eerie final post showed him at the plane’s controls with the caption: ‘Here we gooooo’
The plane, with a tail number of N666DS, took off from Teterboro Airport in on Wednesday at 11.15pm ET, tracking data reveals.
It stopped for fuel in Wichita, Kansas before continuing on to California, where the Cessna ultimately crashed in a quiet military neighborhood in San Diego, close to its intended final destination of Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.
