Kiah Duggins’ family confirmed on Thursday that she was among the victims of the tragic incident.
Kiah Duggins, a 30-year-old civil rights lawyer and former Miss Kansas contestant, was among the 64 people aboard the American Airlines Flight 5342 that crashed into a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter on Wednesday, Jan. 29.alum was on her way back to Washington, D.C., after spending time with her mother, who recently had a surgical procedure.
Duggins graduated from the International Baccalaureate program at Wichita East High School and then later attended Wichita State University as a Clay Barton Scholar. She later received a degree from Harvard Law, where she served as president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
“It is with profound sadness that the Howard University community and the Howard University School of Law have learned of the passing of Professor Kiah Duggins, who was among those lost in the midair plane collision at Reagan National Airport,” Howard University President Ben Vinson III said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
Rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after American Airlines flight 5342 on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river outside Washington, D.C., on Jan. 30.Duggins’ law school classmate Anna Bower remembered her as an “exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar” in a post on“She was a brave and beautiful soul, a light in the fight for civil rights,” Cruse wrote.
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