A 20-year-old Wichita woman was among the 60 passengers of Flight 5342, her father said. Grace Maxwell, a Wichita native, was on her way back to college when the American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

A 20-year-old Wichita woman was on American Airlines Flight 5342 when it went down in the Potomac River Wednesday night. All 67 people involved in the crash are feared dead. Grace Maxwell was returning to school after visiting her home in Wichita.

Grace Maxwell, a junior from Wichita, Kansas, was among the 60 passengers killed in an American Airlines plane crash in Washington, D.C.

A 20-year-old student at an Ohio university was among those killed Wednesday night when an American Airlines passenger jet collided with an Army helicopter in

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three people with connections to Ohio were among the 67 victims of Wednesday night’s deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas, reports say.

Cedarville University says Grace Maxwell, a junior mechanical engineering major, was on the flight from Kansas to Washington when it collided with an Army copter.

Lily Wu, mayor of Wichita, Kansas, and other officials held a press conference on Thursday (January 30) after a plane flying from Wichita crashed in the Washington, D.C. area on Wednesday (January 29).