“Our hearts are broken,” the university said in a letter to the Cedarville family. “Grace was a resident of Maddox Hall and known to be a thoughtful, quiet student leader.” Cedarville students are feeling the weight of this loss.

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

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.

CEDARVILLE — 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, D.C. on Wednesday night. The university identified the student as Grace Maxwell, a mechanical engineering major.

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.