The world of skating is dealing with a great loss after American Airlines’ 5342 flight collapsed with numerous members of the community on board.
During a Thursday, January 30, press conference, CEO of the Boston skating club, Daug ZeghibeHe said “For the best of our knowledge, 14 skater returning home” from the US national figure championships in Wichita, Kansas, were killed on Wednesday, January 29.
Zeghibe explained “We have lost the family” and explained that the tragedy will have “long influences for our skating community”.
The Boston skating club sent 18 athletes to compete in the Wichita National Championship. In a statement issued on Thursday, Zeghibe revealed that six members of the club community were killed in clashes: 16-year-old skaters figure Spencers AND awaytheir respective mothers, Christine Lane and Jin Han, and coaches Vadim Naumov AND Email Shishkova.
Naumov and Shishkova, who were married, were the 1994 world champions in couples. Coupleifi shared a boy, MAXwho competed and ended the fourth at the men’s event in Wichita, but he left on Monday, January 27, while his parents stayed in Kansas to coach at the national US national development camp.
“Our sport and this club have suffered a terrible loss with this tragedy,” the skating club said in a statement. “The skating is a close community, where parents and children gather 6 to 7 days a week to train and work together. Everyone is like family. From skaters, coaches and parents on the plane, we believe six were from the Boston skating club. We are destroyed and completely loss for words. “
The statement continued, “These athletes, coaches and parents were returning from the National School Development Camp in the US, after last week’s US championship in Wichita. This camp is for tomorrow’s competitive skater with the most promise of the most promise Great to be a champion of tomorrow.
In a statement given by the US rink about the Wusa9 news rink on Thursday, the organization confirmed “some members of our skating community were unfortunately on board the American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening In Washington, DC ”
Sixty passengers and four crew members were on board flight, which collided with an army helicopter near the Ronald Reagan National Airport and fell into the Potomac River. It is not believed to have any survivors.
