A pair of World Champion Russian figure skaters were aboard an American Airlines flight returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, according to published reports.
There were 64 passengers aboard the plane, and three Army soldiers in the helicopter, according to officials. Here's a look at what we know about the victims.
Olympian Nancy Kerrigan cried while speaking to reporters at Skating Club of Boston, her former club that had six members aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed in Washington, D.C. Jan. 29.
The pilot and first officer on the American Airlines plane that crashed into a military helicopter Wednesday night—killing all 64 people on board—have been identified by a colleague and family member as victims alongside American and Russian figure skaters,
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov joined the staff at The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2017.
U.S. Figure Skating confirms "several members of our skating community" were on the flight: "We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy."
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.
The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked Wednesday when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.
The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe.