Jesse Pitcher, Michael Stovall, Steve Johnson, Alexander Huffman, Charles McDaniel, Jonathan Boyd and Tommy Clagett were all on their way home from a waterfowl hunting trip in rural Kansas when Flight 5342 went down Wednesday night,

Jesse Pitcher in a duck blind during his hunting trip in Kansas. He was one of seven in his hunting party who died Wednesday on their way back home to Maryland when their flight from Wichita collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo Fowl Plains

Several people from Maryland were killed in the horrific DC plane crash, including members of the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters.

Wednesday night’s plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is hitting close to home, as many of the victims are from Maryland.  That includes one of the soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.