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International Business Times
International Business Times
Mark Moore

7 Friends Returning From Duck Hunt In Kansas Among American Airlines Victims: 'It Was A Boys Trip'

Recovery teams search the wreckage of an American Airlines plane on the Potomac River on Friday. The passenger jet crashed into the freezing waters Wednesday evening after a collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport. (Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images)

Seven friends from the Washington, D.C., area were among the 67 people killed in the collision between an American Airlines plane and a U.S. military helicopter as they returned from a "boys' trip" duck hunting in Kansas.

They were in a party of 10 that spent days with outfitter Fowl Plains in Great Bend, a little more than 100 miles northwest of Wichita, the Wichita Eagle reported.

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