The pilot of a small plane that crashed into a DC-area home on its way to Montgomery County Airpark, killing a mother and her two children, may have crashed a plane while attempting to land at the same airport in March 2010.

Dr. Michael Rosenberg, CEO and founder of a Durham, NC based pharmaceutical research company, was named by Fox5DC as the pilot killed in Monday's crash. He's reportedly been a pilot "for years," and kept model airplanes in his office.

An FAA spokesman said preliminary information showed the Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 twin-engine jet was on approach at Montgomery County Airpark when it careened into homes in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Witnesses said it was making a strange noise, "struggling desperately," going fast, low and out of control.

"I thought 'this doesn't look right,'" one witness told a local TV station. "Three seconds later it was like a bomb exploded."

The incident, in which a total of six people lost their lives, appears to have been Michael J. Rosenberg's second crash while attempting to land at Montgomery County Airpark.

A pilot named Michael J. Rosenberg crashed a Socata TBM 700 turboprop plane into the woods there while on descent from a business trip in North Carolina in 2010.

The March 2010 wreckage is seen in a photo provided to the NTSB by the FAA. Image: FAA

Mashable is unable to confirm if its the same Michael J. Rosenberg who does business in North Carolina, though DC's Fox 5 and WUSA9 both say it's the same Rosenberg.

"It looks like it came up just short of [the] runway," Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said of the 2010 incident.

But according to an April 2010 NTSB report, Rosenberg said he had attempted a "go around" after his aircraft “immediately began drifting towards left [the] side” upon landing, without reason. He was unable to gain more than 10-15 feet of altitude due to a left wing that was tilting approximately 20-degrees down to the left “when it was apparent that ground impact was imminent.”

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The NTSB ultimately said "the pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control while performing a go-around" was the cause.

Rosenberg, who was required to wear glasses while flying due to near vision, had more than 4,000 hours in the air back in 2010. He walked away from that crash with only his pride damaged.

"The pilot is OK," said Keith Miller, executive director of the Montgomery County Revenue Authority, operator of the airfield, shortly after the crash. "He didn't even go to the hospital." Robert Gretz, Senior Air Safety Investigator at the NTSB in 2010, said in an interview memorandum that he had asked Mr. Rosenberg if he was injured, and he stated “only my pride.”

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On Monday, Rosenberg's family told ABC7 they were "in shock" and "devastated" to learn that others died in the incident.

The bodies of Marie Gemmell, 36, her 3-year old son, Cole, and her newborn, Devon, were found huddled in a room in the house that sustained the most damage, Montgomery County police said on Monday afternoon.

Devon was barely a month old. Gemmell was still home on maternity leave.

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