SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

REACH Air Medical has released the names of those on board Monday’s helicopter crash along Highway 50 in Sacramento.

The pilot flying the H130 helicopter was 60-year-old Chad Millward, a former California Highway Patrol pilot. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are continuing to investigate what caused the aircraft to go down just minutes into its flight.

Claudia Rogers, a longtime family friend of Millward, told KCRA 3 that he was always busy serving others — whether through his work, church, or family.

“He was always working — if he wasn’t at church or with his family and doing all that — he was working,” Rogers said.

Rogers, who attended the same church as Millward years ago in Palo Cedro, described him as a man who tre

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