Posted on 12/08/2014 3:56:43 PM PST by Bettyprob
A mom and her two children are dead after a private jet crashed into their Maryland home today, a disaster that also killed the three people aboard the plane, authorities said.
The jet crashed in Gaithersburg, about a mile north of the Montgomery County Airpark. The plane exploded, setting fires and damaging three houses, fire officials said.
The plane sliced through the roof of one home, and the main part of the fuselage and the tail landed against a second house. One of the wings "catapulted" into a third house, where the majority of the fire damage occurred, Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference today.
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Pilot was Michael Rosenberg, CEO of Health Decisions in Raleigh
God rest their souls. Wow.
Really? I was back in the wilderness that week, didn't get to see a TV until Friday evening and surely wouldn't have turned on NBC anyway. I don't miss Bryant.
The registration of the plane is N100EQ. Google has some images of it. Looks like it was built in 2009.
Any relationship between the people in the house and the people in the plane?
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No. Sadly the mother was trying to save the children and probably died from smoke inhalation. They were found together.
Just looked up the ref speeds for the Phenom, they are down in the 90’s not a who,e lot of difference between full flap and approach 2 flap ref speeds.
I join you in prayer.
What an awful story. Prayers for the surviving family members.
Horrible. A three year old and seven week old infant and their Mom, gone. You never know what day and hour will be your last. RIP
2500 is not very high for the ceiling. From Manassas is a short run, but I would be interested to know from what altitude they began their descent into GAI. The airport is small and not easy to find in the residential clutter around it, but that shouldn’t be a factor with good nav eqipment.
That sounds like a pretty poor pilot.
Most people don’t realize how tight that airport is. I ride a motorcycle in the summer, and take 124 to work. When you’re not in a car, you’re especially cognizant of how low those planes come in across the road. Some can’t be more than 20 or 30 feet over the ground, you can feel the turbulence as you’re riding underneath them.
It still freaks me out when I feel that. I wouldn’t have a problem with them shutting the place down.
VREF on approach for the Phenom 100 is about 100kts....it is a VLJ.
Uhhhh....a GPS approach IS an IFR approach.
That’s the town where I grew up, too.
R.I.P.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
So sad to hear of the poor babies dying. Father and eldest son are alive, but lost mommy and baby brothers. So sad! God bless them all.
I hope they sue these people into poverty. Private plane-cause deaths are right up there with pittbull maulings—make the owners pay, pay, and pay smore.
Interesting. Of course, the same could be said for National Airport. What a tight place that is.
On another note, looking at map - there is another mosque near the airport off 124, eh?
And, I didn’t know my cousin was police chief in Monty Co!
Thanks - didn’t look up the article. On a Citation V it’s like 1.3 times the power off stall speed in landing configuration. So like with 130kts it’s 1.69 units. Still need the CVR and radar returns to see what it was doing during approach. My guess it’s stall but have to wait for the NTSB to come up with the cause. It really is a small biz jet.
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