A civil rights attorney and incoming Howard University law professor is among the dead after a midair collision between a passenger jet with a military helicopter killed 67 people on Wednesday evening.

When I found out she got into Harvard Law. I mean, of course, she did,” one of her undergraduate professors said.

Civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins was among the 64 passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., that plunged into the Potomac River Wednesday evening after colliding with a military helicopter.