An aspiring HBCU professor and civil rights attorney named Kiah Duggins has been identified as one of the victims of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an army Black

Wednesday's tragic Washington DC plane crash of a commercial flight and helicopter. claimed the life of Kiah Duggins, a future HBCU professor at Howard University. Duggins, a former Miss Kansas contestant, was among the casualties of a collision between the airliner and a Black Hawk Helicopter near Reagan Airport on Wednesday.

The names of the 60 passengers and four crew members on board began to emerge Thursday as authorities revealed there were likely no survivors of the fiery tragedy that was shaping up to be the

Kiah Duggins, an attorney and future Howard University law professor, was among the victims in the DC plane crash.

A former East High and Wichita State University graduate was among the 64 victims in the D.C. plane crash on Wednesday night. A civil rights attorney who grew up in Wichita was among the 64 people on American Airlines Flight 5342 who perished after it crashed into the Potomac River.

A former Miss Kansas contestant and attorney Kiah Duggins has been named as one of the victims of the flight that crashed into the Potomac River after colliding with a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night.

As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people dead.