The crew chief aboard the Black Hawk involved in the mid-air crash in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night was an alum of Parkview High in Gwinnett County, according to the school's MCJROTC. The school organization identified Ryan O'Hara as a former cadet and Class of 2014 alum who was crew chief on the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet as it approached landing at Reagan National Airport.

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.