“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.

Grace Maxwell, a junior at Cedarville University, was one of 67 people who died in a horrific plane crash in Washington, D.C.

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,

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.

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 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 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.