A second soldier on board the doomed Black Hawk helicopter has been identified after a fatal collision in the air with an American Airlines plane.
Mourning widow Carrie Eaves revealed her husband, Chief Warrant Officer 2, Andrew Eaves was one of the three soldiers who participated on Wednesday evening in the fatal training exercise about Washington DC.
The helicopter bumped into the passenger beam, with 60 passengers and four crew members, and crashed into the Potomac River, with everyone who was now supposed to be dead.
Authorities have taken around 40 bodies from the wreck, but there are at least 14 that they still have to find.
The destroyed wife of Eaves, Carrie, said: 'I'm sure you've all heard the news about the tragedy that occurred in DC.
“My husband was one of the pilots in the Blackhawk. We ask you to pray for our family and friends and for all other families who suffer today. We ask for peace while we mourn. '
She has shared several photos of roof edges, of which he was one in uniform, and asked her friends to share photos they have in his memory.
The Governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, confirmed his death on Thursday evening and went to X to write: “Mississippi mourns the loss of Brooksville Native Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, who was killed in the accident last night on Reagan National Airport.”
Mourning widow Carrie Eaves revealed her husband, Chief Warrant Officer 2, Andrew Eaves was one of the three soldiers who participated in the fatal training exercise through Washington DC on Wednesday evening
The destroyed wife of Eaves, Carrie, said: 'I'm sure you've all heard the news about the tragedy that occurred in DC
“My husband was one of the pilots in the Blackhawk. We ask you to pray for our family and friends and for all other families who suffer today. We ask for peace while we mourn, “Carrie said
Hours earlier Eaves' colleague soldier Ryan O'hara was called the crew leader on the run.
O'hara, a father of one from Georgia, was on board the doomed UH-60 helicopter on an annual skill training flight and is one of the 67 lives lost in the deadliest American aircraft crash since 2009.
The 28-year-old left a woman and a one-year-old son and was remembered with his school with his school as a loved member of the gun team.
His father, Gary, watched on television on the couch on his Midway, Georgia on Wednesday evening, when he saw the break news that a commercial plane had collided with a military helicopter.
He said to the Washington Post: “I just had a gut feeling when I saw the story breaking.”
Around 10 o'clock on Thursday, two army officials knocked on his door to deliver the horrible news, his 28-year-old son was one of the victims.
“As a parent, how do you take the news like this and are you not completely broken?” he asked.
“His mother and I and his sister are just absolutely destroyed to think we were talking to him yesterday and we will never talk to him again.”
Ryan O'hara from Georgia was aboard the doomed helicopter when this Wednesday evening in the Potomac River fell
Retired Army Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Kosiol told ABC News that the trio was 'very experienced'.
O'Hara had recorded hundreds of hours of flight time separately, while roof edges, the instructor pilot who led the training exercise, had 'more than 1,000 hours of flight time'.
The female pilot who recommends the flight, who has not yet been identified, had also recorded more than 500 hours at the time, Koziol said.
“Both pilots had flown this specific route earlier at night – this was not something new for one of them,” he said.
“These are our top pilots who do this national capital region.”
While the pilot who was evaluated was behind the wheel, if something had gone wrong, the instructor would probably have taken control, according to the publication.
The cause of one of the worst incidents with airlines in American history is still not exactly exactly because first responders pull dozens of bodies out of the river.
But President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that the helicopter pilots should have seen where they were going in an extraordinary briefing about what he called “a excreted night in the history of our nation.”
Shown: parts of the wreck that stay in the Potomac River
Trump said the plane 'did everything well' while the black hawk 'went into a corner that was incredibly bad'.
Defense Secertary Pete Hegseeth added that there was a 'height issue' that the army is already looking at.
In the aftermath, the first responds confirmed in the capital of the country that there were no survivors and the rescue operation had become recovery.
Several federal agencies have now started an investigation into how the plane came into contact so close to one of the busiest transport hubs in the country.
The Corp training of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers in ParkView High in Gwinnett County confirmed that O'hara was a student and one of those on board.
'It is with a tough heart that we announce the death of one of us. Class of 2014, former Cadet Ryan O 'ParkView McJrotc on Facebook.
“Our deepest condolences go to Gary O'hara and his whole family.”
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Care providers restore debris of the Potomac River in the aftermath of the collision
Emergency Response Teams are seen at the place of the crash in the Potomac River
The Black Hawk was assigned to Bravo Company of the 12th Aviation Battalion from Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Hegseeth said the crew had a night viewer and was experienced.
The doomed flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas – with 60 passengers and four crew members – clashed in a massive fireball with the army Black Hawk Helicopter 400ft above the Potomac River while the Reagan National Airport approached just before 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Pilots Captain Jonathan Campos, 34, and first officer Samuel Lilley and Stewardessen Ian Epstein and Danasia Elder were all among the victims.
In a further terrible twist on the tragedy, Lilley Sr revealed that he himself was a former army of Black Hawk pilot and had flown in exactly the same area where the disaster took place.
“Samuel was in the prime of his life. He was engaged with a beautiful, great girl and we were all enthusiastic about her who came to the family, “he said.
Timothy, a former Army Warrant Officer who is now a private jet pilot, was on Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, when the crash took place – and is now in Washington.
But he initially had no idea that his beloved son was one of the pilots who died in the tragedy.
“I saw the crash on the news. I didn't think there was a way it was my son, “he said. 'But then I looked at long enough to find out that it was my son's airline and then I know his schedule.
