MS SR63

Remembers Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, a 39-year-old Black Hawk helicopter pilot from Columbus and West Point, Mississippi, who died in an in-air collision on January 29, 2025, near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.

Notes the collision involved Eaves' Black Hawk helicopter with a commercial American Airlines flight, killing the three Army airmen and all 64 passengers and crew members on board; Eaves was on a training mission from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with the Army's 12th Aviation Battalion.

Eaves previously served ten years in the Navy, reaching the rank of E-6 1st class petty officer, and earned an associate's degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Survived by his wife Carrie Eaves, daughter Kaylee Lester, son Michael Lester, mother Betty Hayden Eaves, father Hank Loyd Eaves, and brother Forrest Eaves.

Extends the legislature's thoughts and prayers to Eaves' family and commends his service to the nation as a soldier and guardian of American security.