[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

[Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC]

correction, airpark opened 1960... sorry about that... I was thinking of Davis over in Laytonsville that opened in 1949.



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> From: Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> To: "scan-dc at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
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> Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
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> 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).
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Clegg 
> <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>  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
>>>  >
>>>  > Drop Forge Lane & Blue Smoke Drive
>>>  > Two houses reported struck.
>>>  >
>>>  > 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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