The Sporting News has the latest updates on the U.S. figure skaters involved in the plane crash in Washington, D.C.
Two young sisters, ages 14 and 11, were among the victims who died Wednesday night after a commercial American Airlines plane collided with an army Black Hawk helicopter just outside Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington,
“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in 1995, moved to the U.S. in 1998 and now coach figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston.
The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib
International Skating Union President Jae Youl Kim has held back tears while announcing they will honor athletes and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D.
As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.
Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.
Hearts were heavy Thursday night across the figure skating community. Coaches and skaters with the St. Louis Skating Club held a practice at the Brentwood Ice Rink Thursday night, where we learned multiple coaches and skaters competed and interacted with several victims from Wednesday’s deadly plane collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington,
Scott Hamilton, an Olympic gold medalist figure skater, struggled to hold back tears while discussing the “unthinkable” loss for the skating community in the fatal mid-air crash over Washington, D.C.
Here are some of the victims of the tragedy identified so far. First Officer Sam Lilley and Capt. Jonathan Campos Sam Lilley, a young fiancé awaiting his fall wedding, was piloting the American Airlines flight that was minutes away from a safe landing when a collision with an Army helicopter plunged both aircrafts and everyone on board into Virginia’s Potomac River.
Two teenage figure skaters, their coaches and family members among 14 members of U.S. figure skating community in deadly plane crash over D.C. airport.