# Accident 20141208024529A: Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De EMB-500, Gaithersburg, MD, December 8, 2014

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 8, 2014, 10:41 local time
- Place: Gaithersburg, MD
- Airport: Montgomery County Airpark
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.1803° N, 77.1806° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.1803&lon=-77.1806&mi=10
- Aircraft: N100EQ, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N100EQ-2018-03-16) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De EMB-500 (registry code 3260402, https://openairdocs.org/model/embraer-empresa-brasileira-de-emb-500) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F-E (registry code 52293, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw617f-e) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: EMBRAER-EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE EMB-500
- Reported engine: P&W CANADA PW617F-E
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 3
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 4,500 total
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB DCA15MA029](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA15MA029) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20141208024529A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON DECEMBER 8, 2014, ABOUT 1041 EASTERN STANDARD TIME, THE EMBRAER EMB-500 ?PHENOM? BUSINESS JET, IMPACTED TREES AND RESIDENTIAL HOMES ABOUT 4,000 FEET FROM RUNWAY 14 AT THE

MONTGOMERY COUNTY AIRPARK (GAI) IN GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND. MARGINAL VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED. THE AIRLINE TRANSPORT RATED PILOT AND BOTH PASSENGERS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED IN THE CRASH, THREE INDIVIDUALS, A MOTHER AND HER TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, WHO WERE IN ONE OF

THE HOMES IMPACTED BY THE ACCIDENT AIRPLANE, WERE FATALLY INJURED. THE FLIGHT HAD DEPARTED FROM HORACE WILLIAMS AIRPORT (IGX) IN CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA AND WAS DESTINED TO GAI. AN INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES (IFR) FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED FOR THE 14 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PART 91 PERSONAL FLIGHT.  AIRMAN DID HAVE TWO PREVIOUS ADVERSE ACTION EIRS AND ONE 44709 RE-EXAM NOT RELATED TO THIS ACCIDENT.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB DCA15MA029](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA15MA029), Dec 8, 2014: Embraer EMB-500 (N100EQ), Gaithersburg, MD, destroyed, 6 fatal. Probable cause: the pilot's conduct of an approach in structural icing conditions without turning on the airplane's wing and horizontal stabilizer deice system, leading to ice accumulation on those surfaces, and…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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