JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A downtown Jacksonville attorney is representing two Florida families who lost loved ones in January’s deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
One of the 67 people killed on board the passenger jet was 28-year-old Melissa Nicandri, a Ponte Vedra High School graduate and the daughter of Jacksonville attorney Peter Nicandri.
Peter Nicandri told News4JAX that he learned about his daughter’s death when he received a phone call from her boyfriend, who told him Melissa was on Flight 5342, which had taken off from Wichita, Kansas…