The university confirmed that Grace Maxwell, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering was a passenger on the plane, on her way back to campus from her home in Wichita, Kansas.
In a statement to university faculty, staff and students, the university said that its counseling services staff is on standby and that members of its Student Life and Christian Ministries team will be in the Jeremiah Chapel Friday afternoon throughout the day.
The university’s Executive Director of Public Relations Mark D. Weinstein said that Maxwell was known as a thoughtful, quiet student leader, and assisted mechanical engineering faculty as a grader. She was scheduled to serve on a project team this semester that would work on creating a hand-stabilizing device for a Dayton boy so he could feed himself rather than relying on others, Weinstein said.
Weinstein said that university President Thomas White will address the student body about the situation during the all-campus chapel program on Friday in the Dixon Ministry Center.
He added that when he asked Maxwell’s father what to do to help, the father said that the family would appreciate the prayers of the Cedarville community.
The crash between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport reportedly left no survivors, killing 67 people. Ther was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, though it is under investigation by the Air Line Pilots Association and the National Transportation Safety Board.
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