GAITHERSBURG, Md. (WUSA9) – A doctor killed in Monday's Gaithersburg small jet crash is linked to a 2010 crash which was also heading to the Montgomery County Air Park.
The 66-year-old North Carolina doctor and businessman is identified in records as owning both crashed airplanes, and he may have been the pilot of at least one.
RELATED: Mom, 2 kids among 6 dead in Gaithersburg plane crash
Authorities are investigating to determine who was at the controls in Monday's crash.
FAA records don't identify the pilot in the 2010 crash, but according to a 2010 Gazette article, the pilot of that crash was the doctor, Michael Rosenberg.
Rosenberg was the founder of a Durham North Carolina based pharmaceutical research company, which issued a statement Monday saying he was killed in the recent small jet crash.
"Everyone at Health Decisions is devastated," said the company statement. "The thoughts of the management and employees of Health Decisions go out to Dr. Rosenberg's family."
Records show the plane in the 2010 crash and the jet in Monday's crash are both registered to Rosenberg.
WUSA9 footage from Montgomery County Air Park in March of 2010 shows about a hundred foot long line in the mud leading from the runway to the brush and trees where the pilot got out uninjured.
According to a FAA report on the 2010 crash, just before impact a stall alarm sounded on Rosenberg's eight passenger turbo prop, a Socata TBM-700.
The pilot attempted to abort the landing and make another attempt the plane drifted, climbing about ten feet, then crashed nose down.
The FAA blamed the 2010 accident on the pilot failing to maintain aircraft control.