Three of those killed were on board the aircraft as it ploughed into the house in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to authorities.
Officials
later confirmed that three residents inside the home, including a mother and
her two young sons - a month-old infant and a three-year-old - were also
killed.
Fred
Pedreira, 67, who lives nearby, told the Associated Press news agency he saw
the crash. He said: "This guy, when I saw him, for a fast jet with the
wheels down, I said, 'I think he's coming in too low.'.
The
two-storey, wood-frame home was gutted by the impact "Then he was 90
degrees - sideways - and then he went belly-up into the house and it was a ball
of fire. It was terrible."I tell
you, I got goosebumps when I saw it. I said, 'My God, those are people in that
plane'. I just hope nobody was in that home."
The jet was
an Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 twin-engine, according to the Federal Aviation
Administration, a plane which can seat up to 10 people. It was just a mile from landing at Montgomery
County Airpark at the time of the accident.
The National
Transportation Safety Board is sending an investigator to the scene.
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