Monday, December 8, 2014

Private jet crashes into a house in Maryland – six killed


It was a tragedy of no mean proportions that happened in Montgomery County in Maryland when a small, private jet crashed into a house crash in Gaithersburg, a suburb of Washington, D.C. It left at least six persons dead – the dead were three persons on board the aircraft and a mother and her two young sons inside the home.
The victims on the ground have been identified as 36-year-old Marie Gemmell and her two sons, 3-year-old Cole and a 1-month-old Devon – they were discovered in a second-floor bathroom. The woman was lying on top of her young sons in an apparent effort to shield them from the smoke and fire.
Other members of her family namely her husband and a school-age daughter were not home.
Dr. Michael Rosenberg, founder and CEO of the clinical research organization Health Decisions of Durham, North Carolina, was among those killed.
Incidentally, Dr Rosenberg was a pilot who had crashed a different plane in Gaithersburg on March 1 2010 and investigators are trying to find out if he was at the controls at the time of the crash.
As per FAA, preliminary information indicated that the Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 twin-engine jet was on approach at the nearby Montgomery County Airpark.

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