Sixty passengers and four Charlotte-based crew members were on American Eagle flight 5342, en route from Wichita, Kansas, and three crew members were aboard the Black Hawk helicopter when they collided a little before 9 p.M. On Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Investigators are still working to learn what went wrong on a clear evening when the passenger plane was just a few hundred feet from landing at Reagan Washington National Airport. Officials said there were no survivors — and details about the 67 victims began to emerge.
The passengers included several young figure skaters chasing their dream of becoming world-class competitors. The athletes were returning from the National Development Camp, which was held in connection with the recent U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. The Skating Club of Boston confirmed they lost six people in the deadly crash, including two rising stars in the figure skating world, their mothers, and two star coaches.
We are also learning more about others aboard the flight, as well as the crew of the Black Hawk. Here are some of their stories.
Capt. Rebecca Lobach
The Army identified one of three soldiers aboard the Army Black Hawk helicopter as 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca Lobach. She had served as an aviation officer in the Army since July 2019 and also worked as a White House aide in the Biden administration, officials said.
An undated photo of 28-year-old Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach. Lobach familyLobach was a native of Durham, North Carolina, and enlisted in the North Carolina Army National Guard while in college in December 2018, a friend, 1st Lt. Samantha Brown, told CBS News.
She attended Sewanee: The University of the South, where she played basketball, and then later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed a degree in biology in 2019 as a distinguished military graduate, according to Brown.
Lobach's family in a statement released through the Army described her as a "bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong."
Ryan O'Hara
Ryan O'Hara, 28, was the crew chief on the Black Hawk helicopter. He grew up in the Atlanta area and was a new father, leaving behind a wife and 1-year-old baby boy.
His father, Gary O'Hara, told CBS News that Ryan joined his high school's ROTC as a cadet and enlisted when he was 18, specifically choosing the Army because it offered him the opportunity to work on Black Hawk helicopters.
Black Hawk crew chief Ryan O'Hara Courtesy of Gary O'HaraAfter a tour of duty in Afghanistan, he was assigned to Fort Belvoir in Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.
"I was worried when he was in Afghanistan," his father said in an emotional interview. "You let your guard down … when he's on American soil."
He described the crew of the Black Hawk as "probably the most respected pilots that Ryan had ever flown with."
"He trusted them with his life," Gary O'Hara said.
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He said he began to worry immediately after seeing news of the crash Wednesday night.
"My wife was like, 'No, it's not him,'" he said. "But my heart just broke."
Andrew Eaves
The Army confirmed that Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves was killed in the crash. He served as a UH-60 helicopter pilot for the Army since Sept. 2017, and before that served 10 years in the U.S. Navy.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said Eaves was a native of Brooksville, Mississippi. His wife, Carrie Eaves, confirmed in a Facebook post that he was one of the pilots of the Black Hawk helicopter.
"We ask that you pray for our family and friends and for all the other families that are suffering today. We ask for peace while we grieve," she wrote.
Jonathan Campos
Jonathan Campos, 34, was the pilot on the copyright flight. He grew up in Brooklyn and had dreamed of being a pilot since childhood, longtime friends told CBS News New York.
His ex-fiancée Nicole Suissa, who says they were high school sweethearts, remembers him as a bright and ambitious student with a taste for adventure. "He's being publicized for how he died. But really, this was the boy who taught me how to live. He was good at it," she said.
Lane Rosen, a retired high school teacher, stayed in touch with Campos for years after having him in class.
"I remember him from taking every science class that the school had to offer. I believe he took seven science classes in three or four years," Rosen said.
Danasia Brown Elder
Danasia Brown Elder was one of the flight attendants aboard the plane, and a wife and mother of two.
Her friends and family told CBS News New York she grew up on Coney Island and moved to North Carolina after her mother died.
Three loved ones who are part of a large, tight-knit group of extended family and friends told the station they're devastated to learn of her loss.
Spencer Lane and Christine Lane
Skating phenom Spencer Lane, 16, and his mom Christine Lane were on their way home to Rhode Island from the development camp.
Figure skater Spencer Lane The Skating Club of BostonDouglas Lane spoke to Rhode Island station WPRI after the crash that claimed his wife and son, and called Spencer a "force of nature."
"In his home club in Boston, he was just loved by everyone from the adults running to club to the smallest skaters to the people that are competing for a shot at the Olympics, they all just adored him," he said.
He described his wife Christine as a creative person with a passion for graphic design and photography.
"For Christine, just the amount of people from the community in Rhode Island I've already heard from today that she's touched," he said. "Whether it was screening them to adopt the dog that they loved or helping them with a summer project or whatever, she was just one of those people that could just kind of plug in anywhere, connect with people and build a real bond."
Jinna Han and Jin Han
Another skater from the Boston club,13-year-old Jinna Han, was killed in the crash along with her mother, Jin. They were from Mansfield, Massachusetts, CBS News Boston reported.
Figure skater Jinna Han. The Skating Club of BostonJinna had also been participating in the National Development Camp, an invitation-only event that brings together promising young athletes for training sessions led by some of the sport's biggest names.
"Jinna, just a wonderful kid. Wonderful parents. Great competitor. Loved by all," said Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe.
"I don't think we're ever going to forget them. That is for certain. How we commemorate them here we haven't gotten to that point to discuss, but we certainly will. Just definitely very important and well loved members of our community," he said.
Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova
Star coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova were also returning from the development camp. The Russian-born pair — who won the 1994 World Figure Skating Championship — had been coaching at the Skating Club of Boston.
They also competed in the Olympics twice — in 1992 in Albertville, France, where they placed fifth, and in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway, where they finished fourth.
Eugenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of Russia at the pairs free program at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. Chris Cole/ALLSPORT/Getty ImagesThe couple's 23-year-old son, Maxim Naumov, currently competes with Team USA. Zeghibe said Max had finished fourth in the senior men's event in Wichita and returned home on Monday with Zeghibe.
"We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims' families closely in our hearts," U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement Thursday.
Alexandr Kirsanov
A coach from the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, Alexandr Kirsanov, 46, was confirmed as a victim of the crash, according to the University of Delaware and Kirsanov's employer, Black Bear Sports Group. He was also traveling back from the development camp.
"In his many years with Ice World, Sasha coached, mentored, and made such an incredible impact not only on our young skaters but on so many who knew and loved him," Black Bear Sports Group founder and CEO Murry Gunty said in a statement.
Olivia Ter
Olivia Ter, 12, a youth figure skater from Prince George's County, Maryland, was aboard the flight at the time of the crash, according to the county's Parks and Recreation Department, CBS News Baltimore reported. She was returning with other skaters from the National Development Camp and aspired to qualify for a spot on Team USA in the world championships.
"The impact of Olivia's life will continue to resonate in our youth sports community, and she will be sorely missed," said Bill Tyler, the director of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission for the Prince George's Department of Parks and Recreation.
Asra Hussain Raza
Asra Hussain Raza was 26 years old and had recently moved to the Washington, D.C., area with her husband for a consulting job. She was flying home from a work trip to Kansas, her father-in-law, Hashim Raza, told CBS News.
She was a graduate of the University of Indiana and Columbia University, her father-in-law said.
Kiah Duggins
Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins was killed in the crash, university president Ben Vison confirmed Friday, CBS News Baltimore reported.
Duggins was also a civil rights attorney with the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps, according to a profile on the organization's website.
She earned her bachelor's from Wichita State University and won the Miss Augusta and the Miss Butler County beauty pageants in 2014 and 2015, making it to the top 10 finalists in the Miss Kansas pageants those years, according to the executive director of the Miss Kansas Organization.
Elizabeth Anne Keys
Elizabeth Anne Keys, a 33-year-old woman from Cincinnati, was a graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University Law Center, CBS affiliate WKRC reported. Keys was valedictorian of her class at Madeira High School in Cincinnati in 2010.
"She was just such an outstanding student, outstanding young lady, just the kind of person that we need many, many more of," former Madeira principal Ray Spicher told the station. "What a quality young lady she was, a leader around school, involved in all kinds of activities."