College student returning home for her grandfather's funeral among victims of American Airlines flight and Black Hawk DC collision

A 20-year-old pupil was among 67 passengers connected doomed American Airlines formation 5342 aft returning location to be her grandfather's funeral.

Grace Maxwell, a 20-year-old biomedical engineering pupil astatine Cedarville University successful Ohio, was connected the doomed formation returning backmost to school.

She had reportedly been successful Kansas to be her grandfather's funeral, The Wichita Eagle reports.

Her begetter told the work that she 'was connected the plane', but that he'd not yet heard from authorities regarding immoderate further details.

Cedarville University told WLWT that Maxwell's decease volition beryllium formally addressed with the pupil assemblage during an all-campus chapel programme connected Friday.

'As you tin imagine, the past 24 hours person been precise hard for the Maxwell household and the Cedarville University community,' the schoolhouse said.

'As a university, we bash not tendency to crook this tragic lawsuit into thing much than a mode to grant Grace, her family, and Jesus.'

Maxwell was owed to postgraduate successful 2026. 

'Grace was a nonmigratory of Maddox Hall and known to beryllium a thoughtful, quiescent pupil leader,' her schoolhouse said.

'During her assemblage years, she assisted mechanical engineering module arsenic a grader.'

Maxwell's secondary advisor, Dr Tim Norman, described her arsenic 'a quiescent idiosyncratic with a keen involvement successful helping others done engineering.'

She was 'scheduled to service connected a task squad this semester that would statesman to make a hand-stabilizing instrumentality for a otherwise enabled Dayton lad truthful helium could provender himself alternatively than relying connected others.'

The schoolhouse said: 'Even though we don't recognize wherefore this has happened, we are assured that Grace is with Jesus Christ. 

'Those of america who judge successful Christ volition spot her again. We grieve, but not arsenic those without hope.'

Counseling services volition beryllium disposable for each students and staff. 

Around 40 bodies person already been pulled from the wreckage astatine Potomac River successful Washington DC. 

Divers volition instrumentality connected Friday to proceed searching for the remaining victims.

There were 60 passengers connected committee the level and 4 unit members, arsenic good arsenic 3 soldiers connected committee the Black Hawk Army chopper it collided with.

Authorities accidental determination are nary survivors.

David Hoagland, President of the DC Fire Fighters Association, revealed connected Thursday nighttime the harrowing scenes archetypal responders were confronted with.

'It's graphic. They encountered radical wrong the level inactive strapped successful their seats, and they weren't capable to region them close away,' Hoagland said.

'Today, a batch of the effort has been focused connected removing radical from wrong the level who they were not capable to region past night, arsenic good arsenic conscionable continuing to scan the full country to spot who they tin locate.'