Around 11:00 a.m. this morning, an Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 twin-engine jet crashed into a neighborhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland, killing three people on board, and destroying or badly damaging three homes. The crash site is about a mile northwest of the Montgomery County Airpark, reported to be the plane's intended destination. Whether anyone on the ground has been injured is not yet known.
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UPDATE: As reported by AOL, a woman and her two sons were killed in their house when it was struck by the plane.
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