[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

[Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC]

Right across the main road from where I live... I was on the way to work and had stopped in the Dunkin donuts down near the other end of the airpark... large black column of smoke.

Airpark opened in 1949 - houses there were built in the 1980s... people interviewed are already yelling about the airpark.


Ch 9 had good coverage on their website, I haven't looked anywhere else... at least 3 on the plane were killed.  Last I heard, it sounded like FD hadn't made entry into the house yet.

Is the airport closed?  This would be on the approach... Runway 14 runs NW - SE (of course), and the incident is a little less than a mile to the nw of that, on the opposite side of Snouffer School Road.


DK

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>From: Thomas P. Clouse <tom at clouse.com>To: Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> 
>Cc: Jeff Krauss <jeff at krauss.ws>; "Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 12:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
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>Washington Post reporting it is an Embraer Phenom 100 twin turbofan 4-place
>VLJ (very light jet).
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>On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
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>> I'm listening to some of the activity on 154.16.
>> I can see the smoke from the crash from my apartment window in Arlington
>> (but yet I can't hear DCA tower 4 miles away...)
>> Andy
>> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:52:12 -0500
>> > To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> > From: jeff at krauss.ws
>> > Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
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>> > Drop Forge Lane & Blue Smoke Drive
>> > Two houses reported struck.
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>> > At 10:50 AM 12/8/2014, Jeff Krauss wrote:
>> > >Plane into a house Snouffers School Road
>> > >Working house fire
>> > >TG 7C
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