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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Seewer and Adam Geller

Dozens who died over Washington shared a flight but each had their own story

Aircraft Down - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The moments Grace Maxwell had shared with her grandfather over the years had been “his greatest joy.” And a trip home to Wichita, Kansas, had allowed the 20-year-old to be by his side one final time.

Maxwell, a mechanical engineering major, was returning to college just a day after her grandfather’s funeral when she and 66 others were killed in Wednesday’s collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C.

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