Samuel Lilley, copilot of American Flight 5342, which crashed midair with an Army helicopter, trained in Daytona Beach, ...

Families mourn the lives of the two commercial airline pilots who perished in Wednesday night's crash in Washington D.C.

A family with Georgia ties is grieving after learning their loved one was one of the pilots killed in the crash between a ...

Sam Lilley, the first officer of the fatal American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night outside Washington, D.C., was a coastal Georgia native and Georgia Southern ...

The first officer on board the airplane that ultimately collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter 400 feet above the ...

Seven of the 67 people killed when an American Airlines jet collided midair with an Army helicopter were members of the two ...

Sam Lilley was a pilot on the American Airlines flight and grew up in Georgia. Sam's father, who is also a pilot, recounts ...

The Schrocks regularly made the trip. Their roots and large farm were in Kiowa, Kan., but after their daughter, Ellie, moved ...

As one nation, we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly,” Trump said at a press briefing ...

As one nation, we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly,” Trump said at a press briefing ...

Next to him in the cockpit was Sam Lilley, the flight’s 28-year-old first officer, who was also looking to the future. He was engaged to be married in the fall, Lilley’s father, Tim ...

Sam Lilley was among the 64 aboard the American Airlines regional jet, which collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.