The crew chief on the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter involved in the crash has been identified as Ryan O’Hara by Parkview High School in Lilburn, Georgia.

A solider involved in the American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter has ties to Gwinnett County.

A Georgia high school says that one of the soldiers involved in the mid-air collision was a former student and a member of their MCJROTC program.

Gov. Brian Kemp has issued a statement following the deaths of two native Georgians in Wednesday night's midair collision near Washington DC.

The soldier was one of three aboard the Black Hawk helicopter which collided with an American Airlines jet Wednesday night.

Sam Lilley, the first officer of the fatal American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night outside Washington, D.C., was a coastal Georgia native and Georgia Southern University graduate.

Two teenage U.S. figure skaters, their mothers and two former world champions were among the 14 members of the figure skating community killed on this flight.

Ryan O’Hara, a father-of-one, was one of the three soldiers aboard the military helicopter, according to reports

Ryan O’Hara, the crew chief on the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter involved in the crash at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C., was part of the 2014 class of Parkview Marine Corps JROTC at Parkview High School in Lilburn.