The crew on American Airlines Flight 5342 was based in Charlotte Douglas International Airport, WSOC-TV Channel 9 reported. Among them were Captain Jonathan Campos, First Officer Samuel Lilley, and flight attendants Ian Epstein and Danasia Elder.
The plane was also carrying 60 passengers from Wichita, Kansas, when it crashed over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29. All 67 people aboard the PSA Airlines-operated plane and Army Black Hawk helicopter are feared dead, authorities said.
Campos, 34, was originally from New York and grew up in Florida, the Daily Mail reported. He trained at the Epic Flight Academy in New Smyrna Beach, FL, earning certification as a flight instructor in 2017 and a commercial airline pilot in 2018.