By james art 
Toledo, Ohio (AP) – The moments Grace Maxwell shared with their grandfather over the years, were “his greatest joy.” And a trip to home to Wichita, Kansas, allowed the 20-year-old to be with his country one last time.
Maxwell, Major for Mechanical Engineering, returned to college just a day after their grandfather’s funeral, when she and 66 others were killed in a collision on Wednesday between a US Airlines plane and an army helicopter over Washington, Colombia District, County County, District Colombia, Colombia County, Columbia County, Colombia County, Colombia County, Columbia County, Colum County
One of the other victims was a young lawyer from the capital of the nation, whose meeting at Wichita ended early enough to make a flight for his birthday holiday. Another was a police colonel whose home was in the Philippines, but whose work took him to Kansas to check the equipment the forces plan to buy.
As Maxwell’s classmates filled Friday at the Cedrevil University’s chapel, they joined others, mourning the lost life and understanding to make sense of the accidental circumstances that put friends and relatives on Wednesday night.
“Can you imagine losing a parent and seven days later to lose a child?” The President of Cedarville, Thomas White, told the Southwestern Ohio University.
Philippine Police Colonel Randulf Tuanho, the chief office of public information, spoke during a press conference at the Philippine National Police Headquarters in Manila on Friday, January 31, 2025, as he confirmed that a Philippine police officer was one of the passengers killed on board On US airlines, an airplane that has encountered a Blackhawk army helicopter in the United States. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan)
Photo: Associated Press/Joeal Calupitan
Maxwell was known in the campus for his devotion to help others by working this semester to create a hand stabilization device to help a disabled boy eat and chip on a student radio, the school said.
“We don’t know why a young, bright, brilliant star is taken too early,” White said.
The coincidence and fleeting solutions have led many passengers to get on flight 5342.
Elizabeth Ann Keys, a lawyer, had traveled to Wichita on a business trip and worried that he might not be able to celebrate his 33rd birthday back in Washington with his longtime partner David Seidman.
But her work meeting ended with the time to keep, allowing her to catch her birthday and make plans to drink the couple late that evening, Saidman said.
“She was super excited.”
Keys, a native of Cincinnati, and a New York Seidman, met as a law students at the University of Georgetown of Washington. The capital became their city, and Keys was infinitely energetic as they explored it together.
She played saxophone, goblled and Basson in high school and was in the college sailing team. She liked to make ski trips in the west, go to Hawaii and entertain friends around the fire pit at her home, her family said.
Seidman said he had never skiing until she encouraged him to shoot him. She wanted to try golf afterwards and they planned to take lessons.
“It was so for everything,” he said. “She was a nonstop all the time.”
Pergentino Malabed, Jr., was more than 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) and 13 time zones from his home in the Philippines. As a head of supply management for 232,000 national police forces on his country, Malabed travels to Wichita to check the equipment.
“His untimely passage is a deep loss for the Philippine National Police, where he has served with honor, with honesty and dedication throughout his career,” a statement of power said.
Malabed and dozens of others climbed the jet, as many do every day, forming an instant community – albeit for only a few hours – to different travelers, many of whom probably share a small relationship, if any.
Kia Douggins, a civil rights lawyer and a professor at Howard University, returns to Washington after a visit to Wichita, where she was raised and still has a family.
She has grown up in the student government, set up a food bank and instructs young girls, very black like her, encouraging them to go to college. She continued at the Harvard Law Faculty and worked as an intern at President Barack Obama’s White House. And in Howard, she remains a defender of others, said Bobby Gandu, director of university reception.
“She was always a voice for students who had no voice or who were underestimated,” Gandu said. “And she leaned into this discomfort, as we like to say here, and she uses her voice and her ability to raise others.”
26 -year -old Asra Hussein returns to Washington from a work trip to a hospital in Wichita. The core of Carmel, Indiana, won both a bachelor’s and a healthcare degree before she and her husband settle in the capital.
On Friday, one of her former professors at the University of Indiana recalled Hussein’s work ethics, her positive attitude and skill to ask difficult questions.
“It has stood out from the beginning,” said Paul Helmke. “She was immediately an rising star.”
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Wendy Shaffer’s friends struggled to explain the loss of a vital mother, whose two young sons were her pride and joy.
“Her love, kindness and unwavering spirit touched everyone who knew her,” the family’s friends wrote on a fundraising site. “And her absence leaves a void that can never be filled.”
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Geller reported from New York. Associated Press Jim Gomez journalists in Manila; Heather Holingsworth in a mission, Kansas; Christine Fernando in Chicago; Nadia Latan in Austin, Texas; And Jennifer Pelz in New York contributed.
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