The crew chief of the doomed Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday was identified as Ryan O’Hara.

“Ryan is fondly remembered as a guy who would fix things around the ROTC gym as well as a vital member of the Rifle Team. Ryan leaves behind a wife and 1-year-old son,” the Parkview High School JROTC in Georgia wrote on Facebook. 

O’Hara was one of three soldiers on the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk at the time of the disaster.

The instructor pilot in charge who was flying the helicopter had 1,000 flying hours – which is considered “very experienced,” Fox News has learned. Most flights are on average two hours in length.

In a blunt Truth Social post, President Donald Trump called the crash “a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented.”

Shortly after the collision, Vice President JD Vance urged people to “say a prayer for everyone involved.”