Reuters:
An executive jet crashed into a Maryland neighborhood on Monday, killing at least three people aboard and leaving three people missing on the ground, fire officials said.
The Embraer SA twin-engine Phenom 100 crashed into a home about one mile (1.6 km) from the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, a Washington suburb, county fire department spokesman Pete Piringer told a news conference.
At least three people aboard the plane were killed and the home's occupants, a mother and two children, were unaccounted for, he said.
The crash sparked a fire that destroyed two homes, and three others were damaged. Piringer said crews had contained the fires and some jet fuel had leaked into a stream.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said the plane went down on its way back to the airport. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that it was investigating the crash.
Witnesses told local media that the plane had been circling with the wheels down, and looked as if it was struggling for control.
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