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

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.

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

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.

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 on board the military helicopter, according to reports

One of those soldiers on board a military helicopter when it crashed into a commercial plane in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night is a graduate of a Gwinnett County High School. The Parkview High School JROTC confirmed that Ryan O’Hara, who graduated from the school in 2014, was the Crew Chief on board the Black Hawk helicopter.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp posted on his X account on Thursday afternoon, identifying two of the victims involved in the fatal plane crash Wednesday night at Reagan International Airport in D.C.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered two so-called “black boxes” from the American Airlines regional jet, following the deadly collision with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening.

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