The tragic disaster of the DC aircraft leaves school communities

The school communities in Virginia and Ohio mourned victims and families Defined a terrifying collision in the air between a passenger aircraft and a military helicopter in nearby Washington, DC

Officials believe that all 64 people on board the American Airlines, who started from Wichita, Kansas and all three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter Killed after the collision of two aircraft on the Potomac River. The disaster took place just before 21:00 on Wednesday, when the passenger plane was approaching the national airport Ronald Reagan.

Relatives and local communities with connections with victims began to identify People lost in a tragedy. On Thursday, school districts in Virginia announced that the present and former students and parents died in an air collision.

In the E -Maili update, curator of public schools in Fairfax Michelle Reid said that many return from flight from Figure skating event in Wichita. According to Reid, three students and six parents who died were part of the school district.

Reid added that two parents were present or former employees of the district. The front district of the 12th grade, located on the other side of the Potomac River from Washington, did not reveal the names of victims out of respect for them and their families.

“Many get to share their sadness and emotions in this difficult time. We hear from students, staff members and others in the community who express their care and concern for those who lost their loved ones, “said Reid. “I invite you to join me by keeping all the community affected by this deep loss in our prayers.”

“An unimaginable loss has deeply affected our community”

Loudon County Public Schools, a school district on the outskirts of Washington, also announced on Thursday that many former students were among the dead.

“This unimaginable loss has been deeply affected by our community,” said Aaron Spence superintendent in update. “It also affected many other Loudun families, and we are expanding our deepest condolences to everyone who despair after this tragedy.”

Cedarville University, a private Baptist University located in a village east of Dayton in Ohio, said that the student was on board a flight from her hometown of Wichita. 20 -year -old Grace Maxwell was to return to the university during a flight connecting from the reagan national airport, said the University of the statement.

She was younger mechanical engineering and smaller biomedical engineering and, according to the university, was to graduate in 2026 described as “thoughtful and quiet student leader”, the university said that Maxwell assisted mechanical engineering lecturers as equivalent.

“Grace was a quiet person who enjoyed helping others through engineering,” said Tim Norman, who was his second adviser.

Maxwell planned to work on the project in this semester that would create a manually stabilizing device for the boy Dayton, so that he could feed instead of relying on others, according to the university. The President of the University of Thomas White was to turn to the student body about the death of Maxwell during the All-Campus chapel program on Friday.

DC plane crash: Maping of flight paths that place a stream and helicopter on a collision course

Contribution: Shahid Meighan, The Columbus Dispatch

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