An American Airlines flight carrying figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River. It is unclear if there are any survivors. U.S. Figure Skating confirmed that several skaters, coaches, and family members were on the flight. Russian figure skating coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, former world champions, were also on board.
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.
U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement that several skaters, coaches and their family members were on the commercial flight after attending a development camp that followed the championships that wrapped up Sunday in Wichita, Kansas.
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