Airman 1st Class Tyler Jacobs, 19, died July 14, 2024, when his vehicle crashed into a roadside garage near Misawa Air Base, Japan. (Facebook)

The Air Force has identified the airman who died July 14 when a car crashed into a roadside garage near Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Airman 1st Class Tyler Jacobs, 19, died that morning in the crash near Misawa Station that killed another occupant, injured a third and set the garage on fire, according to Japanese police and an Air Force news release Wednesday.

The Air Force did not identify Jacobs’ hometown. On his Facebook page, Jacobs listed Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jacobs and Mikio Imanami, 26, of Rokkasho village, were believed to have burned to death in the 4 a.m. crash, a Misawa Police spokesman said by phone Wednesday.

The crash victims were too badly burned to immediately identify, the Misawa Police spokesman said on July 16. The previous day, a spokesman for the 35th Fighter Wing said the Air Force had identified the airman but withheld his name pending family notification.

Misawa police are still investigating the accident’s cause but found that Jacobs, the driver, had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit in Japan, according to the police spokesman.

The legal limit for driving under the influence in Japan is 0.03%. By comparison, the legal limit across the U.S. is uniformly 0.08%.

A surviving passenger, Yuta Onoue, 20, was treated at a local hospital for a broken leg and burns to his back.

A base spokeswoman, Senior Airman Brieanna Bolfing, referred questions about Jacobs’ duty assignment to Misawa city police. A Misawa Police spokesman declined Wednesday to provide that information.

The base is still planning a memorial service for Jacobs and the return of his remains to his family, Bolfing said.

“The Air Force has received Tyler’s body from the local Japanese Government,” the airman’s father, Jason Jacobs, of St. Petersburg, Fla., posted on his Facebook page Tuesday. “We think his body should be sent home to Florida sometime next week.”

The family expects to hold a funeral service on Aug. 10 at the Cavalry Catholic Cemetery in Clearwater, Fla., he wrote.