Authorities said all aboard the flight died after the fiery collision with the helicopter broke the aircraft apart and sent it plunging in three sections into the icy Potomac River below. Three U.S. Army service members aboard the helicopter also died,

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three people with connections to Ohio were among the 67 victims of Wednesday night’s deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas, reports say.

A 20-year-old student at an Ohio university was among those killed Wednesday night when an American Airlines passenger jet collided with an Army helicopter in Washington D.C. Grace Maxwell was a junior at Cedarville University.

Elizabeth Anne Keys was flying back to Washington D.C. from a work trip before the plane crashed that night, her partner told The Enquirer.

After an all-night search-and-rescue operation in frigid conditions and heavy winds on the icy Potomac, officials pivoted Thursday morning to recovery operations.

Recovery operations are still under way in Washington DC, after an American Airlines plane from Kansas carrying 64 people onboard collided with a military helicopter, manned by three personnel, on Wednesday night.