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Mom Killed After Plane Crashes Into Maryland Home Originally From Brick Township, NJ

A mother who was killed along with her two children and three other people after a plane crashed into a Maryland neighborhood was originally from Brick Township, New Jersey.

A jet registered to North Carolina-based Sage Aviation was en route to the Montgomery County Airpark when it crashed about a mile away into a home on the 19000 block of Drop Forge Lane in Gaithersburg, Maryland just before 11 a.m. Monday.

The jet made a narrow gash through the roof of that home, while the main body of the plane came to rest against a second house. A wing containing fuel catapulted into a third home, causing a large, deadly fire.

Firefighters quickly responded to the scene, but said the flames were too large and too dangerous to do a top-to-bottom search.

Marie Gemmell, 36, was on the second floor of the third home cradling her 7-week-old and 3-year-old boys during the fire. All three perished. Gemmell was originally from Brick Township, New Jersey and graduated from Brick Township Memorial High School in 1997.

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Just hours before the crash, Gemmell posted on her Facebook page that she just wanted to "stay home" Monday and watch TV with her kids. Her visibly distraught husband was at the scene throughout the day, and the couple's oldest child was not home during the crash.

All three people abroad the jet were also killed, including Michael Rosenberg, CEO of North Carolina-based biopharma corporation Health Decisions, Inc.

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