Passengers aboard the American Airways flight that collided with an Navy helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River included decide skaters getting back from the U.S. Decide Skating Championships and two of their Russian coaches.
There have been 60 passengers and 4 crew members on the American Airways flight on Wednesday and three troopers aboard the teaching flight on the Blackhawk helicopter. It was believed that there have been no survivors.
“We in the meanwhile are on the extent the place we’re switching from a rescue operation to a restoration operation,” talked about John Donnelly, the hearth chief throughout the nation’s capital, on Thursday morning. “We don’t believe there are any survivors.”
U.S. Decide Skating talked about in a press launch that numerous skaters, coaches and their family members had been on the economic flight after attending a enchancment camp that adopted the championships, which wrapped up Sunday in Wichita, Kansas.
“We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims’ families closely in our hearts,” U.S. Decide Skating talked about in a press launch.
Two of those coaches had been acknowledged by the Kremlin as a Russian couple who had been pairs world champions 30 years prior to now.
Listed below are the passengers acknowledged up to now:
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Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov
Shishkova and Naumov gained the pairs title on the 1994 world championships in Chiba, Japan. They competed twice throughout the Olympics.
The Skating Membership of Boston lists them as coaches. Their son, Maxim Naumov, is a aggressive decide skater for the U.S.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Shishkova and Naumov had been aboard the plane.
The Worldwide Skating Union despatched a press launch saying it was deeply shocked and heartbroken.
