WUSA 9 Gaithersburg (WUSA9) – A doctor killed in Monday’s Gaithersburg, Md. small jet crash is linked to a 2010 crash which was also heading to the Montgomery County Airpark.
The 66-year-old North Carolina doctor and businessman is identified in records as owning both crashed airplanes and may have been the pilot of at least one.
Authorities are investigating to determine who was at the controls in Monday’s crash.
FAA records don’t identify the pilot in the 2010 crash, but according to a 2010 Gazette article, the pilot of that crash was the doctor, Michael Rosenberg.
The 66 year old Rosenberg was the founder of a Durham North Carolina based pharmaceutical research company, which issued a statement Monday saying he was killed in the recent small jet crash.
“Everyone at Health Decisions is devastated,” said the company statement. “The thoughts of the management and employees of Health Decisions go out to Dr. Rosenberg’s family.”
Records show the plane in the 2010 crash and the jet in Monday’s crash are both registered to Rosenberg.
WUSA9 footage from Montgomery County Airpark in March of 2010 shows about a hundred foot long line in the mud leading from the runway to the brush and trees where the pilot got out uninjured.
According to a FAA report on the 2010 crash, just before impact a stall alarm sounded on Rosenberg’s eight passenger turbo prop, a Socata TBM-700.
The pilot attempted to abort the landing and make another attempt the plane drifted, climbing about ten feet, then crashed nose down.
The FAA blamed the 2010 accident on the pilot failing to maintain aircraft control.
USA TodayA stay-at-home mom and her two young children also perished, said spokesman Pete Piringer of Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service. A 5-year-old daughter went to school Monday morning and is safe; the father of the family, Kenneth Gemmell, also was not home at the time of the crash.
The corporate jet, registered to Sage Aviation of Chapel Hill, N.C., crashed into one two-story wood-frame home, setting it and an adjacent home on fire at around 10:45 a.m. ET. A third home also was damaged.
In the plane was Dr. Michael Rosenberg and two others whose names have not been released, according to a news release from Health Decisions of Durham, N.C. The company provides services for clinical trials.
“We can best honor Michael by carrying on and realizing his vision of a more efficient approach to clinical development,” said Dr. Patrick Phillips, the private company’s vice president of clinical affairs. Succession plans will be announced later.
On the ground, Marie Gemmell, her 3-year-old and her 6-week-old were on the second floor in the most damaged of the houses, where the first floor was nearly blown out, said Chief Steve Lohr of Montgomery County Fire & Rescue.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/08/plane-crash-house/20090509/
Nothing happens by accident, it took them 2 tries to kill him.