An American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River, with several figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on board. The identities of some passengers, including two Russian figure skating world champions, have been confirmed. The fate of the passengers and crew remains unclear.
Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River included figure skaters returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and two of their Russian coaches. There were 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines flight on Wednesday and three soldiers aboard the training flight on the Blackhawk helicopter. It was unclear early Thursday if there were any survivors. U.S.
Two of those coaches were identified by the Kremlin as a Russian couple who were pairs world champions 30 years ago. Here are the passengers identified so far: Shishkova and Naumov won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships in Chiba, Japan. They competed twice in the Olympics. The Skating Club of Boston lists them as coaches. Their son, Maxim Naumov, is a competitive figure skater for the U.S. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Shishkova and Naumov were aboard the plane.
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