Showing posts with label gaithersburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaithersburg. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Most popular posts December 2014

1.) Satellite data shows MH370 plane crashed into the Indian Ocean - Critical days were lost in the search for MH370 because Malaysian authorities initially rejected evidence from a British satellite company that the Boeing 777 with 239 aboard was in the Southern Indian Ocean. [Full story

2.) US Army deploys missile-fighting blimp over Maryland - For the first time, the U.S. Army lofted a blimp equipped with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system high above rural Maryland. [Full story

3.) Video: Plane crashes near Montgomery County Airpark - A small jet aircraft crashed into a neighborhood within a mile of Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Md., on Dec. 8. [Full story]

4.) Video: Chinese helicopter lands on U.S. guided-missile destroyer - A Chinese Harbin Z-9E helicopter practices landing aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). [Full story] 

5.) Video: Army blimp launched over Maryland - You might have heard of JLENS, the U.S. Army’s cruise-missile fighting radar blimp that will be stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. [Full story]

Monday, December 8, 2014

Video: Plane crashes near Montgomery County Airpark

A small jet aircraft crashed into a neighborhood within a mile of Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Md., on Monday.

The aircraft is a 2009 Embraer 500 Phenom 100 jet (tail number N100EQ) registered to Sage Aviation LLC in Chapel Hill, N.C., according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

Three people aboard the plane and a mother and her two children in a nearby house were killed in the accident.

The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the flight recorders from the plane.