Third American Victim in Germanwings Crash Identified
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ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The third American victim who died in the Germanwings plane crash has been identified as Robert Oliver.
Oliver, 37, was an American citizen born in Barcelona, Spain.
He worked as a real estate coordinator for the Spanish-based fashion company Desigual, a company spokeswoman told ABC News. Oliver covered German real estate for the company and was headed to Dusseldorf on a business trip with a Spanish colleague called Laura Altamira at the time of his death, according to the Desigual spokeswoman.
The first two Americans on board were named on Wednesday as mother-daughter pair Yvonne and Emily Selke.
Yvonne Selke lived in Virginia and worked at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, largely working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Emily Selke graduated from Drexel University in 2013 as a music industry major.
Among the 144 passengers on board were 16 German high school students and their two teachers who were traveling back from a language exchange trip in Spain.
Six crew members were also on board, including co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who investigators believe kept his captain outside of the cockpit as he deliberately forced the plane to descend into the French Alps.
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