Duggins' family said that she was returning to Washington D.C. after spending time with her mother during a surgical procedure

A former Miss Kansas contestant and attorney Kiah Duggins has been named as one of the victims of the flight from Wichita, Kan. that crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night.

WICHITA, Kan. ( KWCH /Gray News) - As families and communities continue to identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., there’s now news that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people who were killed.

More information concerning victims of Flight 5342 has emerged.Sixty-seven people are presumed dead following a collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter.Sign up for our NewslettersCivil rights lawyer,

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.