Maryland State Police have identified the three men who died after a small airplane crashed in Bowie late Saturday night.

The men, identified as 26-year-old Yoav Bomrind, 19-year-old David Rabinovitz and 20-year-old Elad Neidik, boarded a single-engine Piper Cherokee plane in Ocean City, New Jersey, and were headed to the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg. The plane crashed shortly before midnight in a heavily wooded area, just feet from a playground and a townhome complex in Bowie.

The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Aircraft registries show the plane belonged to the Washington International Flight Academy. The academy declined to comment Monday.

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Elena Russo, a spokesperson for the Maryland State Police, confirmed that the academy owned the plane and said that the three men were on a training flight when the crash happened.

It’s unclear why the training flight took off so late or what went wrong before it crashed.

Flight data showed the plane had made several trips at the local Gaithersburg airport that week, most about an hour long.

Several Jewish news outlets identified the men as Israeli. Bomrind’s father told the Jewish news site VINnews that his son had traveled to the U.S. to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot.