Overview
- A single‑engine Piper PA‑28 crashed into wooded parkland near townhomes in Bowie late Saturday night, killing the pilot and two passengers at the scene.
- Maryland State Police and multiple local agencies searched after an automatic iPhone crash alert, and responders located the wreckage about four hours later with no injuries on the ground.
- Authorities identified the victims as Yoav Bomrind, 26, David Rabinovitz, 19, and Elad Neidik, 20, and said two were Israeli citizens while one was Canadian.
- Investigators from the NTSB and FAA are on site reviewing the plane’s maintenance logs, weather data, air‑traffic communications and pilot records and have not yet released a probable cause.
- Officials say the aircraft likely belonged to a Montgomery County flight school and may have been a training flight, and consular offices and organizations such as ZAKA are assisting families while the school paused operations.