Grace Maxwell, a Cedarville University student, was one of the 60 passengers on the American Airlines regional passenger jet that collided mid-air with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter above the Potomac River on Wednesday,

A Cedarville University student is among those presumed dead after an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight that was on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington,

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.

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. Grace Maxwell was a junior at Cedarville University.

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.

In a press release Thursday, Cedarville University’s director of public relations says student Grace Maxwell was among those killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night. Cedarville says that Maxwell was returning to campus from her home in Wichita, Kansas when her flight was downed.

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.

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.