Mom, 2 kids among six people killed as aircraft hits house

BY A STAFF WRITER

GAITHERSBURG (MD) — A twin-engine plane crashed into a house in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, subdivision on the morning of December 8, killing three people in the aircraft as well as two small children and a 36-year-old woman in the residence.

The bodies of the woman and two children — a 3-year-old and an infant — were found in the second floor of one of the houses struck by the plane, according to Montgomery County Police Chief Chris Manger.

He said it appeared the woman is the children’s mother. Her 5-year-old daughter went to school Monday morning and was reportedly safe, while the father, Kenneth, was not home when the crash happened.

One of the people killed on the plane was Michael Rosenberg, CEO and founder of Health Decisions, a North Carolina clinical development company.

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.

The plane, which took off from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, went down about a mile from the airport, hitting three houses in all. The airport is about 25 miles northwest of Washington.