The two pilots had a combined total of 1,500 flight hours and the crew chief was a senior aviator with at least 500 hours in the air.

The names of two of the three soldiers who were on the U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight on have been released.

A United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed at approximately 9 p.m. while performing a training mission near Ronald Reagan