A
twin-engine plane crashed into a house in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, subdivision
on Monday morning, killing three people in the plane and a mother and two small
boys in the residence, according to local and federal authorities.
The bodies
of Marie Gemmell and her sons, Cole, 3, and Devon, 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. Monday 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 the press conference near the wreckage.
The plane went down about a mile from the airport,
hitting three houses in all. The airport is about 25 miles northwest of
Washington.
Witness Fred Pedreira, 67, told CNN the plane appeared to be out of control
when it crashed.
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