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.

GEORGIA — 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. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called the loss of Sam Lilley and a second Georgia victim, soldier Ryan O’Hara, a “terrible tragedy.”

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Timothy Lilley, the father of a pilot on board the American Airlines flight which collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, said he suspects the helicopter may have been at fault.