A U.S. Army captain who died in Wednesday's midair collision of a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet was “brilliant and fearless” and “meticulous in everything she did,” friends and fellow soldiers said.

Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach was among those killed in a collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines Flight 5342 on Wednesday night.

The third soldier aboard a Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission when it collided with an American Airlines jet over Washington, D.C., Wednesday has been identified.