Mother and two children killed when jet crashes into their home

[spaminator]

Mother and two children killed when jet crashes into their home
Reuters
First posted: Monday, December 08, 2014 08:49 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 01:37 AM EST
An executive jet crashed into a Maryland house on Monday, killing all three people aboard the plane and a mother and two children inside the house, a fire official said.
The pilot of the jet who died in the crash had previously crashed a plane destined for the same airport in 2010, according to records.
The Embraer SA twin-engine Phenom 100 crashed into a home about 1.6 km from the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, a Washington suburb.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane was registered to Michael Rosenberg, an adjunct professor of epidemiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and CEO of clinical research company Health Decisions, Inc.

In 2010, Rosenberg crashed another airplane near Monday's wreck site, although there were no injuries in that crash, according to National Transportation Safety Board records. The 2010 accident occurred at the Montgomery County Airpark, also Rosenberg's destination on Monday, when he lost control while landing and crashed into trees, according to records.​

Monday's crash killed Rosenberg who was piloting the aircraft and the two other people on board, as well as a mother and two children in the home, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer said on Twitter.
The crash sparked a fire that destroyed two homes, and three others were damaged. Piringer said crews had contained the fires but some jet fuel had leaked into a stream.
The plane had departed from an airport on the Chapel Hill campus at 9:30 a.m., an NTSB spokesman told a news conference on Monday night.
Investigators, who were expected to be on the scene for up to seven days, will examine the experience and training of the pilot, weather factors, engine condition and interview the aircraft controller who handled the attempted landing, NTSB spokesman Robert Sumwalt said. They will also look into a possible bird strike.
"Our mission is to find out what happened and why it happened so it will never happen again," Sumwalt told the news conference.
Witnesses told local media that the plane had been circling with the wheels down, and looked as if it was struggling for control.
The remains of a home are seen after a plane crashed into it in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in this handout photo provided by the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service/Handout

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[WLDB]

Well thats unfortunate.

 

[B00Mer]

Very, very sad...

I guess when it's your time... that's pretty much it.

 

[MHz]

I don't even want to guess at the odds of this happening.

 

[spaminator]

Mother, two young children huddled in bathroom as jet crash destroyed their house
John Clarke, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 06:59 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 08:13 PM EST
WASHINGTON - The Maryland mother of three killed when a small jet crashed into her house in a Washington suburb on Monday, died huddled in a bathroom trying to shield her two youngest children from the smoke and fire caused by the crash, officials said on Tuesday.
A police spokeswoman in Montgomery County identified the victims in the house as Marie Gemmell, 36, and her two young sons, 3-year-old Cole and Devin, just six weeks old.
Gemmell and her two sons are survived by the woman's husband and a 5-year-old daughter who was at school at the time of the crash, Montgomery County officials confirmed. They did not name the two survivors.
Just hours before the crash, Gemmell had posted on her Facebook page that she just wanted to "stay home" on Monday and watch TV with her children.
The other three people who died in the crash were the plane's occupants, pilot Michael Rosenberg, 66, and passengers David Hartman, 52, and Chijioke Ogbuka, 31, all of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Investigators continued to comb through the wreckage site on Tuesday where the Embraer SA twin-engine Phenom 100 crashed into Gemmell's home about 1.6 km from the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg.

The executive jet had dipped below 150 metres and had dramatically slowed down 20 seconds before the crash, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Robert Sumwalt told a news conference on Tuesday in Washington.​

"There was a low speed warning and a stall warning," Sumwalt said, noting the plane had slowed to 88 knots before the crash. "So we know that."
The plane had departed from an airport on the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus at 9:30 a.m., according to the NTSB.
There was no evidence of a bird strike, he added.
The debris and fire also damaged two nearby homes. The damage to the homes is estimated to be $4 million, Montgomery County spokesman Pete Piringer said on Twitter.
Marie Gemmell and her sons in a memorial photo posted on Facebook.

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Mother, two young children huddled in bathroom as jet crash destroyed their hous

 

[taxslave]

I don't even want to guess at the odds of this happening.

Higher than you would think. A good bud crashed his cesna into a house killing him and his passenger when he had engine trouble just after takeoff and didn't have enough altitude to get back to the airport. Fortunately there was no one home at the time but he was just 2 blocks shy of an elementary school.

 

[JLM]

Well thats unfortunate.

To put it mildly!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Odds are pretty good when idiots are allowed to keep flying. Crash into some trees for no reason in 2010 should of been the end of this particular pilot's adventures in the cockpit.