2 Marine Pilots Killed in Helicopter Crash in Arizona Identified

Marine Corps Air Station Squadron barracks at the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) in Yuma, Ariz. on March 28, 2019. Cpl. Sabrina Candiaflores/U.S. Marine Corps via AP

YUMA, Ariz.—The names of two Marine pilots who died in a helicopter crash during a training mission in southwestern Arizona were released on April 1 as the crash remained under investigation.

U.S. Marine Corps officials identified the dead pilots as Maj. Matthew M. Wiegand, 34, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, and Capt. Travis W. Brannon, 30, of Nashville, Tennessee.