Air Force officer who died in Alaska plane crash remembered as 'positive leader'

A 23-year-old Air Force officer killed alongside seven others in a charter plane crash in remote western Alaska last week is being remembered as a "positive leader" who served with "professionalism, compassion and purpose."

The Air Force identified 2nd Lt. Leah R. Borsich on Monday as one of the victims of the Aug. 20 crash near the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, about 450 miles west-southwest of Anchorage. Borsich was a project programmer with the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.