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>> reporter: the plane was destroyed on impact. three people on board were killed. three others, members of the same family, were killed inside the house that was hit by the small private jet. >> we believe its the woman who lived there and her two -- two of her children. 3-year-old and an infant. >> reporter: federal investigators said the twin engine jet took off from chapel hill, north carolina, and was on approach to montgomery county air park. residents of this neighborhood say living less ...

The small jet which is an embraer emb-500/phenom 100 twin of engine jet. i dont see any search and rescue going on in that screen. its clearly the epicenter of that crash. 11:00 this morning the crash happened. fire and rescue were on the scene. they put out the fire. they were doing a search and rescue and whether thats now shifting, you can see the demeanor of the rescuers who are out in front of that house. perhaps thats shifting to a recovery. its clearly a fresh piece of information that cr...

This vantage point, to determine where the aircraft wreckage is in comparison to the residential complex damage. at this point, we do not have any reports of injuries or deaths, but i can tell you this, our affiliate says that three people were onboard that aircraft. i think you can see the fire and rescue off to the right of your screen as well. that is the word, that they are apparently involved in a search and rescue in gaithersburg, maryland. unbelievable destruction of what that aircraft wa...

Search and rescue mission. but those are very difficult pictures to look at when you think at some point in that wreckage there was a jet, an emb 500 fenom 100 twin engine jet when it crashed. it was on approach to the airport. theres an effort to put out that fire. we havent seen the efforts in terms of the recovery. we havent seen them sifting through the debris. there was a larger group of search and rescuers who were not convening waiting to figure out what the next step is. again, we dont k...

Were showing you now. it happened about 75 miles west of imperial. there is a number of bombing ranges and other military training areas. there is a navel airstrip here called el centro. no word yet on the cause of the crash, but it is worth mentioning that it is a single engine jet, and there are emergencies that could happen like an engine failure and it could drop out of the sky like a rock. >> this is an f-18 super hornet. they were attempting a night landing. im showing you video right now ...

That come over the transpond her even if it got turned off before. >> if the transponder was somewhere turned off, could that plane land somewhere and no one know about it? >> well, yes. if the transponder was switched off and the plane was no longer transmit squawking as its known, yes the plane -- the transponder has nothing to do with the ability of the aircraft to fly. its literally im here, this is who i am. what would have happened, as that plane was flying, there would be full scale full ...

Korea according to flight tracking information. we dont know how many people were on board that plane. it carries as many 451 passengers, maximum. the triple 7 as it is known is the worlds largest twin engine jet. one would anticipate that there would be injuries if not fatalities but we cannot give you any of those details right now. according to a witness the plane was about to land. its tail came off after wobbling for a minute. the aircraft came to a stop on the runway on its back. obviously...

Its the worlds largest twin engine jet. it carries a great many people, hundreds at a time but we just dont know about the flight manifest, how many people were on board, but one hopes for the best in terms of casualties. no details on that. just in the amount of time weve been impoverishing covering this breaking news story in the last 25 minutes, its gone from dark black smoke to now just very light white smoke. i believe that is the foam that we were talking about that seems to be around the ...

Ships. >> steve: cirrus makes the five passenger airplane that makes a parachute. >> its always good to be wearing a parachute when youre flying. single engine airplane manufacturer. theyve got 105 jobs open this year. they need engineers, people that can help with design of aircraft. they also, if you work for the company, you can get your private pilots license while working for the company, which is an expensive certification. theyre also working on this single engine jet. it would be the fir...

The plane were killed. the twin engine jet reported mechanical problems and attempted to land about a half mile in this direction, but it never touched down. it was reportedly making another attempt to circle around, but it never made it, crashing about halfway down this block. ntsb investigators are working the scene, trying to term a cause of the crash before removing the plane from the house. killed on board the flight were steve davis, star quarterback who led the oklahoma sooners to 28 vict...