Washington-two young figures, two of his parents and two extremely Russian figure skating coaches were one of those killed after a flight of American Airlines, who collided with an army helicopter on Wednesday night and Potomac Crashed in the terrible water of the river.
Doug Zighib, Chief Executive Officer of Boston’s Skating Club, said on Thursday that the skates were among Jinnah Han and Spencer Lane killed, along with coach andgenia Sheeshkova and Wadim Naomov.
“This will be a long -time arrival effect for our community,” he said during a news conference that he was visually emotional.
On Wednesday, there were 60 passengers and four crew members in the American Airlines flight and three soldiers rode a training flight on the Blackhawk helicopter. The hope of saving any leftover was evaporated during the day.
“Now we are at the point where we are turning into a recovery operation from a rescue operation,” said John Donley, the fire chief in the nation’s capital on Thursday morning. “We don’t believe that someone is left.”
Donley said he was confident that the remains of those killed in the accident would be recovered, but it may take some time.
US Figure Skating said in a statement that many skates, coaches and their family members were on commercial flights after attending a development camp, which followed the championships wrapped in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday.
Two of the coaches were identified as a Russian couple by Kremlin, who were couple world champions 30 years ago.
This is not the first time that the US Figure Skating community has been shaken by an aerial tragedy. The 18-Material American team that was set to compete in the 1961 World Championships at Prague, when Sabana Flight 548 crashed out of Brotherlles on 15 February 1961 for about 45 minutes outside the Brussels. Apart from this, there were six American coaches and four skating officers, along with some family members.
American Airlines set up centers along with a hotline for those who discovered information about family members, along with the centers of Washington and Wichita, who rode on Wednesday’s falling flight.
There are travelers identified here so far.
Evgenia Sheeshkova and Wadim Naomov
Sheeshkova and Naomov won the couple’s title at the 1994 World Championship in Chiba, Japan. He competed twice in the Olympics.
Boston’s Skating Club lists him as a coach. His son, Maxim Naomov, is a competitive figure skater for America
Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov confirmed that Sheeshkova and Naomov were in the aircraft.
“Unfortunately, we see that this tragic information is being confirmed,” said Peskov. “There were other fellow citizens there. Today is bad news from Washington. We are sorry and send condolences to the families and friends who lost our fellow citizens who were killed in a plane crash. ,
The International Skating Union sent a statement, stating that it was deeply shocked and broken.