Pilot of Blackhawk Helicopter In D.C. Plane Crash Identified: Rebecca M. Lobach

After withholding her name since the tragic crash, the Army finally identified Saturday the third soldier on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the midair crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach.

Lobach, of Durham, North Carolina, was the last member of the helicopter’s crew to be identified.

Lobach’s family initially withheld her identity when the Army released the names of the other two soldiers killed in the collision, Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Lloyd Eaves.

Why did they scrub all her social media accounts?

Conversely, the pilot of the passenger plane that hit a military chopper and crashed in the Potomac River this week may have attempted a last second move to evade the collision, NTSB said at a news conference.

The CRJ was at 325 feet at the time of impact “plus or minus 25-feet” the NTSB revealed at the press conference, Saturday.

Rebecca Lobach ID’d as female soldier inside doomed Black Hawk during DC crash

By Katherine Donlevy

The U.S. Army has identified the female soldier in the doomed Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines flight this week, killing 67 people.

Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, North Carolina, was assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and had served since July 2019, the Army said in a statement.

The Army had initially refused to identify Lobach at the request of her family.

Flight path data shows another plane behind the American Airlines plane and around 11 miles from the helicopter.

The decision to release her name came “at the request of and in coordination with the family,” according to the statement.

“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. She was a bright star in all our lives,” her family said in a statement released by the Army.

“Rebecca was a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle … Rebecca was many things. She was a daughter, sister, partner, and friend. She was a servant, a caregiver, an advocate. Most of all she loved and was loved. Her life was short, but she made a difference in the lives of all who knew her.”

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Lobach also served as a White House social aide during the Biden administration.

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  1. Royal Brown III
    Royal Brown III says:

    She was also a “Social Escort” or some such function for the Bidens and had a “partner” whatever that means. Don’t care what her sex or sexual preferences were but that she was qualified for being pilot in charge of a night flight in a heavy traffic area. It is questionable that the Blackhawk was within its assigned altitude range – guess we will see. Doubltful that crash was fault of the AA crew.

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