Pentagon Identifies Two of Three Helicopter Crew Killed in Crash

The Pentagon identified two of the three US soldiers killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided with a commercial airliner, but withheld the name of the third at the request of the victim’s family.

The two identified soldiers were named as Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, and Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, according to an Army statement. The third soldier’s name “will not be released at this time,” it said.

The remains of Eaves and the unidentified soldier still haven’t been recovered, and they were listed as “duty status-whereabouts ...