A search-and-rescue operation for a missing private plane ended early Sunday with the grim discovery of three bodies in the aircraft’s wreckage in a wooded area near a Maryland residential neighborhood, officials said.

The pilot and two passengers aboard the single-engine Piper Cherokee were pronounced dead after rescuers located the wreckage in the woods near Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

The bodies of three adult men have been recovered, according to a statement from the Maryland State Police.

The names of those who perished were being withheld by authorities pending notification of relatives.

“Investigators believe the aircraft belongs to a local flight school in Montgomery County. Police believe the aircraft may have been participating in a training flight,” according to the statement from the state police.

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