XPost: rec.sport.skating.ice.figure, alt.airports, rec.travel.air
XPost: talk.politics.guns, sac.politics

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/at-least-14-members-of-us-figure- skating-team-were-on-american-airlines-flight-that-crashed-in-dc/

At least 14 members of the US Figure Skating team were on the American
Airlines flight that collided mid-air with a military helicopter over Washington, DC, Wednesday night, a skating official said.

Six members of the US Figure Skating team on the doomed flight were
affiliated with the Skating Club of Boston, the club’s CEO and executive director Doug Zeghibe said, according to WCVB.

Skater Spencer Lane, his mother, Molly, skater Jinna Han, and her mother,
Jin, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were all aboard the
plane.

He said both of their mothers were “role model parents” dedicated to their children’s sports.

There were no survivors from the crash, which involved an American
Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers plus four crew members and a
military helicopter that had three soldiers on board, officials said
Thursday.

Shishkova and Naumov won the pairs title at the 1994 World Championships
and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, according to the report.

Follow the NYP’s coverage of the deadly DC plane collision

Military chopper, plane collision over DC was ‘absolutely’ preventable,
new transportation boss says — as officials confirm no survivors expected
Air traffic controller’s reaction to DC collision revealed in chilling
audio: ‘Crash, crash, crash, this is an alert three’
DC chopper, plane crash live updates: No survivors expected after AA
flight collides with military helicopter in deadliest US crash since 2009 Timeline of air traffic controllers issuing warnings before American
Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collision in DC
Trump says collision between American Airlines jet and Army helicopter
‘looks like it should have been prevented’

Their son, Maxim Naumov, who is also a competitive figure skater in the
US, was not on the plane.

“This will have long-reaching impacts for our skating community,” Zeghibe
said. “The [coaches] came to us in 2017 and were very much a part of our building the competitive skating program here at the Skating Club of
Boston.”

The group was flying home from the National Development Camp, held after
the US Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas. They were set to
take a connecting flight from Reagan to Boston on Wednesday night.

It’s not the first time an airplane tragedy impacted the Skating Club. A
flight carrying 18 members of the US Figure Skating team to compete in the world championships in Prague in 1961 crashed as it was trying to land in Brussels, according to the report.

All 73 people aboard the plane died, including 16-year-old Laurence Owen,
who was known as “America’s Queen of the Ice.”

“Almost half of everyone aboard that plane were from (the Skating Club),” Zeghibe said. “It had long-reaching implications for the Skating Club and
for the sport in this country because when you lose coaches like this, you
lose the future of the sport, as well.”


--
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)