Crime & Safety
Israeli Pilot, 2 Passengers Identified In Plane Crash In Bowie
Three young men have been identified by police as the pilot and 2 passengers who were killed in a single-engine plane crash Saturday night.
BOWIE, MD — Maryland State Police have identified the three men killed in Saturday's plane crash in Bowie.
The pilot has been identified as Yoav Bomrind, 26, of Israel and the two passengers have been identified as David Rabinovich, 19, of Israel and Elad Naidik, 20, of Canada. They were pronounced dead at the scene, authorities disclosed.
Police believe the men were on a training flight connected to the Washington International Flight Academy, which is based out of the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg.
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The National Transportation Safety Board, the agency leading the investigation, said it will examine the wreckage, review air traffic control communications and radar data, interview witnesses and collect maintenance records for the aircraft, along with the pilot’s medical records and flight history.
At approximately 11:45 p.m. June 20, an iPhone crash alert was received by Prince George’s County Public Safety Communications indicating a crash had happened in the area of Route 50 and 301. A ground and aerial search for an aircraft was carried out by multiple first responders that included the Prince George’s County Fire Department, Maryland State Police assigned to the Special Operations Division, Criminal Enforcement Division and College Park Barrack, officers from the Anne Arundel County Police Department, Prince George’s County Police Department and the Bowie City Police Department.
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The aircraft was found early Sunday morning at approximately 3:45 a.m. in a wooded area close to a residential area off of Scarlett Oak Court in Bowie. Forensic analysts from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division responded to process the scene for evidence.
The preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 11:30 p.m. June 20, a single engine Piper Cherokee with a pilot and two passengers on board were en route from Ocean City, New Jersey, to the Montgomery County Air Park, when for reasons unknown at this time, the plane crashed into a wooded area in Bowie. There were no other injuries reported, according to Maryland State Police.
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