A twin-engine plane crashed into a house in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, subdivision this morning, killing three people in the plane, two boys and their mother in the residence, according to local and federal authorities.
The bodies of Marie Gemmell and her sons, Cole, who was 3, and Devon, who was an infant, were found in the second-floor bathroom of one of the houses struck by the plane, said Pete Piringer, the public information officer for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.
One of the people killed on the plane was Michael Rosenberg, CEO and founder of a North Carolina clinical development company called Health Decisions, according to a statement from the company. The flight originated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, close to the company headquarters in Durham.
The crash occurred about 10:44 a.m. this morning as the twin-engine Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 made an instrument approach to Montgomery County Airport, Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board said at a press conference near the wreckage.
The plane went down about one mile from the airport, hitting three houses total. The airport is around 25 miles northwest of Washington.
Witness Fred Pedreira, 67, told CNN affiliate WJLA the plane appeared to be out of control when it crashed.
This article makes me feel very sad and confused. I'm really sad that these six people died but I'm also sad that one was an infant. I'm curious to see how the plane exactly crashed and if it was truly the pilots fault or not. This article makes me think of the September 11th World Trade Center attacks but definitely this is at a much smaller degree.
This article's source can be found here:http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/08/us/maryland-plane-in-house/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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