A Howard University Law professor and former Kansas beauty queen was among the 67 people presumed dead after a midair crash ​involving a passenger plane and Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., university officials said.

Last year, she collaborated in a virtual group with Kiah Duggins, an incoming professor at Howard University who was killed in Wednesday’s plane crash near Washington, D.C. “You see things that kind of strike nationally, you don't realize that there is a connection. So that was, like, the hardest thing for me,” Nnachi said.

Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash. They were among hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent the email at 8.

A Cedarville University student has been identified as one of the victims aboard the American Airlines plane involved in the deadly collision with a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night.