It has been not quite two months since six members of the Skating Club of Boston died in a plane crash outside of Washington, D.
It has been nearly two months since American Airlines Flight 5342 departed for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were just beginning their journeys to stardom.
A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas has killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.
The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the U.S. and globally.
The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.
The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked 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.
U.S. Figure Skating and The Kremlin announced Thursday that two World Champions were in the American Airlines jet that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.
Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and their Russian coaches, a group of hunters coming home after a guided trip in Kansas and an Ohio college student headed back to campus after attending her grandfather's funeral.
