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 woman from Wichita who attended college at a small university in Ohio was among the 64 people on board the American Airlines flight out of Wichita that crashed with a military helicopter Wednesday night near the Reagan 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 junior at Cedarville University who had reportedly just returned to Kansas for her grandfather’s funeral is among the 67 feared dead in a plane crash.

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.

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).