Chelsea Airman Returns Home After Losing Wife, Daughter In Crash

Editor's note: In an earlier version of this story, News On 6 erroneously reported that the airman was returning from Afghanistan.  He was actually in Iraq at the time of the incident and is a member of the Air National Guard, not the Army National Guard. News On 6 regrets the error.

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TULSA, Oklahoma -- An airman whose wife and daughter died in Friday's head-on crash north of Talala returned to Tulsa from Iraq Monday.

The service member was deployed in the Middle East country when he learned about the accident.

Troopers say Christina Ramsey veered into oncoming traffic and hit two cars on Highway 169. She and her 8-year-old daughter Josie died at the scene.

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The patriot guard met him in Tulsa as he returned for the funerals.