US Figure Skaters, former Russian World Champion crashed aircraft on board | Aviation news
Skaters returning from a camp in Kansas were among 64 passengers in the aircraft, crashed after a midar collision with a US army helicopter near Washington, DC.
The United States Figure Skating Body has confirmed that many skates were on an American airlines’ regional passenger aircraft that crashed near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia.
The aircraft, along with 64 passengers and crews, was the route from Wichita, Kansas to Washington, DC, when it collided with the Midyar by the US Army helicopter late on Wednesday.
The US Figure Skating said on Thursday that athletes, coaches and family members were returning from the National Development Camp organized in conjunction with the US Figure Skating Championship in Canasus.
“We have been destroyed by this inexplicable tragedy and holds the families of the victims closely in our hearts,” he said in a statement.
Officials did not say how many people died in the accident, but suggested that no one could survive.
Meanwhile, the Russian state media earlier reported that the ice-search coach and former world champion andgenia Sheeshkova and Vadim Naomov were among the people in the aircraft.
Shadik and Naimov, who were married, won the World Championship in 1994 in the couple’s figure skating.
His son, Maxim, a skater can also be on the aircraft, Russia’s Tass and RIA news agencies told.
Inna Volyanskaya, a former skater who competed for the Soviet Union, was also reported to be on the board, said Tass. She was a coach at the Washington Figure Skating Club, according to her website.
Officials said the regional passenger of an American Airlines crashed into the Potomac River after a midar collision near the Black Hawk Helicopter Reagan Washington National Airport of an American Airlines.
