Jeffrey Clay had been a Comair captain since 2004, hired in November 1999. He was 35, married with two children, and he lived in Burlington, Ky.

“He was strong, he was tough, he was dedicated,” Clay’s older brother, James, of Vineland, N.J., told The Daily Journal in Vineland.

“He was everything that most people look for in themselves. He had it all.” Jeffrey Clay was a 1988 graduate of Vineland High School, where he was a wrestler, the newspaper reported.

“He’s a super-hard worker. His values were superb,” former coach Dennis Miller said. “As a coach, we became an integral part of kids’ lives. But in Jeff’s case, he probably influenced us more than we did him.

“He was a fine young man, a bright young man.”

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