By all accounts, the pilot of the EMB-500 Phenom 100 jet that crashed on December 8,2014, while on approach to Montgomery County Airpark (KGAI), Gaithersburg, Maryland, was a brilliant man. The 66-year-old medical doctor was the chief executive officer of a pharmaceutical and medical device research company he founded. He also was the winner of numerous business and technology awards. He received a Master's degree in epidemiology and biostatistics from Harvard, and was an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina. Yet, he wound up as the pilot in the first fatal accident involving a Phenom 100 very light jet. The pilot and both passengers, business associates of the pilot, were killed when the airplane went down about three-quarters of a mile from Runway 14 at KGAI and hit three houses. A mother and her two children died in a second floor bedroom of their house when they became trapped by fire. The Part 91 flight had originated at Horace Williams Airport (KIGX), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where the airplane was based.
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