Multiple Tennessee natives were named among the people identified in a crash between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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Sarah Lee Best, 33, was a Clarksville native and graduate of Vanderbilt University. She was an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff Law Firm in Washington.
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Casey Crafton, a graduate of Central Baptist School in Memphis, was also among the 64 passengers who died. He was a husband and father of three living in Connecticut.
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The female pilot of the helicopter, Capt. Rebecca Lobach, 28, was reportedly a former college basketball player at the University of the South in Sewanee before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.