On Wednesday nights, more than dozens of elite figure skaters were riding an American Eagle Flight, clashing with the Army Black Hawk Helicopter, and clashing with the Potomac River near Washington DC.
Athlete participated in a US figure skating camp in Wichita, Kansas, targeting a promising young skater, Doug Zigibe, the CEO of Boston’s skate club.
“As far as we know, 14 skaters have returned home … the airplane CRASH has been lost,” Zigibe told a reporter in Nodewood, Massachusetts. “It’s a big loss for our skating community.”
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Zegibe said that six victims belonged to Boston’s skating club, two coaches, two skaters, and two mothers.
The club has identified the skater as a teenager Spencer Lane and Jinna Han, and their mother, Christine Lane and Jin Han.
Authores said that the two coaches were former Russian world champions Evgenia Shishikova and Vadim Na Mov.
The Boston skate community has been carefully knitted.
Stoneham, who won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics and won the silver medal in 1994, shed tears in consideration of the victims.
“As everyone here says, I don’t know how to handle it,” she told the Nowood reporter. “I’m sorry, so I’m here.”
According to American Airlines, an airline’s parent company, it was not clear immediately how many US skaters were in the American Egre -Flight 5342, which carried 60 passengers and four crews.
The Prevagen US figure skate championship, the final qualifying for the United States and the Junior Championship Team, was concluded in Wichita on Sunday, and the national development camp immediately continued.
The Russian world’s pair figure skate champion Shishikoba and Naumov were married, but Russian’s spokesy TASS and RIA Novosti, who were among passengers, first reported, and Zeghibe later confirmed.
According to TASS, 52 -year -old SHISHKOVA and 55 -year -old NAUMOV won pair events at the 1994 World Championships, retired in a competitive skating in 1998, and lived in 1998. They worked as a skater coach, including members of the Russian national team.
Wednesday night crashes have evoked the memories of February 15, 1961, killing 18 members of the US World Figure Skating Team.
The 16 coaches and parents of these skaters were killed when Savena flight 548, who traveled to Brussels from New York, dropped crash at Zabentem Airport.
The party was on the way to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague.
Skating’s legendary Skating, who won a gold medal in 1956, said that the crash drop on Wednesday brought the terrible memories of how close she was to fly in 1961.
“Yes, on the way to the World Championship in 1961, there were 22 friends on the plane,” Or bright said on Thursday. “I’m convinced that I would have gone there to support them, but I couldn’t go in the last year of the medical school, and I was very strange a few years later. Remember the people who are watching, “Are you on the plane?” And I wish I wasn’t on the plane. 。 And I don’t know how to handle it. “
Zeghibe stated that the US figure skating community has still been affected six years later.
“Almost half of everyone on the ship on this plane (1961) came from this club. It had a long, continuous impact on skate clubs and sports in this country. Sports are the same.” Zigibe said.
“It took a long time to redevelop it. This club, a Boston skate club, personally feels that it came out of the shadow of CRASH in 1961 about 60 years later.
