Dr. Rosenberg crashed the airplane into a house in Gaithersburg, Md., on Dec. 8, 2014. According to the NTSB investigation, a failure to turn on the de-icing equipment “led to ice accumulation on the wings, an aerodynamic stall and then the crash.”
Along with Dr. Rosenberg, the two other passengers were killed in the crash: Chijoke Ogbuka, a regulatory project manager with Health Decisions, and David Hartman, vice president of Clinical Pharmacology with Durham-based Nuventra, a clinical pharmacology consulting firm. When the plane crashed into the house, resident Marie Gemmell, 36, and her two children — a three-year-old and six-week-old — were also killed.
According to the Triangle Business Journal, the investigation found “evidence that the pilot skipped certain checklist items and procedures before takeoff,” based on information from the flight recorder.
“Pilots must rely on checklists and procedures because relying only on memory can have deadly results,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart, according to the report. “The pilot’s failure to turn on the de-icing system in an icing situation proved to be disastrous.”
Dr. Rosenberg founded Health Decisions, a clinical research organization, in 1989. In May 2014, Triangle Business Journal named Dr. Rosenberg the 2014 Life Sciences CEO of the Year.
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