CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) – A student from a university near Dayton, Ohio, is among the 67 victims killed in the Jan. 29 plane crash at an airport near Washington, D.C.
Cedarville University’s director of public relations said in a press release Thursday that student Grace Maxwell was among those killed in the midair collision Wednesday night.
Cedarville University says Maxwell was returning to campus from her home in Wichita, Kansas, when her flight was downed.
Maxwell was a third-year student studying mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering.
Dr. Tim Norman, one of Maxwell’s advisers, remembers her as “a quiet person with a keen interest in helping others through engineering.”
This semester, Maxwell was set to serve on a project team that would create a hand-stabilizing device for a disabled boy in Dayton so he could feed himself without the assistance of others.
It is still unknown what led up to the midair collision.
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