Top figure skaters from the United States and Russia were on board the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., after colliding with a military helicopter.
The collision of a commercial jet and an Army helicopter Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. that killed more than 60 people has been especially devastating to the figure skating community. Fourteen members of the skating community were among the dozens killed when the plane crashed and landed in the Potomac River.
“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.
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,
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,
Among the 67 lives lost were top skaters from the United States and Russia, including several children, poised to become the future stars of tomorrow.
Tara Lipinski and Tonya Harding were among those in mourning after learning figure skaters were in Wednesday's plane crash near Washington D.C.
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
As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.
The Sporting News has the latest updates on the U.S. figure skaters involved in the plane crash in Washington, D.C.
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.