DC plane crash victim Marine Lt. Col. Brian Ellis was a former high school GA football star who also played at the U.S. Naval Academy.

One of the pilots killed when an American Airlines flight collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk in Washington, D.C. has been identified as a Georgia man. Sam Lilley was serving as First Officer on the flight before it crashed into the Potomac River.

The U.S. Army on Saturday released the name of the third soldier who died on a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport this week,

Wednesday's deadly collision involving a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Washington, D.C., followed the Army's highest rate of flight mishaps in more than a decade.

The U.S. Army on Saturday identified the third soldier who died last week during a training mission that ended in a midair crash between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.