A family with Georgia ties is grieving after learning their loved one was one of the pilots killed in the crash between a small American Airlines plane and a military helicopter crash near Reagan National Airport.

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.

A family and fiancé are in a state of grief after the tragic Washington D.C. collision that took the life of an American Airlines pilot from Savannah.

The American Airlines pilots killed in the tragic Washington, D.C. crash have been identified. First Officer Sam Lilley, 28, died alongside 34-year-old Captain Jonathan Campos in the mid-air collision with a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday night.

The pilot of the American Airlines plane that crashed in Washington DC on Thursday morning has been identified by his family. Sam Lilley was one of the two pilots killed when his passenger plane collided with a military helicopter.