The skater returning from a camp in Kansas was among 64 passengers on an airplane dropped after an aerial collision with a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington DC.
The US figure skating agency has confirmed that there were several skaters on the American Airlines passenger aircraft that dropped crash near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia.
The 64 passengers and crew airplanes collided with the U.S. Army helicopter on Wednesday on Wednesday on Wednesday.
The US figure skating stated on Thursday that athletes, coaches, and families have returned from a national development camp in cooperation with the US Figure Skating Championships in Kansas.
“We are devastating by tragedy that cannot be described in this word, and keeping the victim’s family closely in our hearts.”
Authorities have not said how many people have died in the accident, but suggest that no survivors may be.
Meanwhile, Russian state -owned media reported earlier that coaches covering the ice, former world champion Evgenia Shishikoba and Vadim Naumov are on an airplane.
Shishikova and Naumov, who got married, won a pair of figure skating in 1994.
Russia’s TASS and RIA news agencies reported by Russia’s TASS and RIA news organizations, and Russia’s TASS and RIA news agencies may be a skater.
TASS has reported that the former skater, Inna Volyanskaya, who participated in the Soviet Union, has also boarded. According to the website, she was a coach of the Washington Figure Skating Club.
Officials said that after aerial collision near the Reagan Washington National Airport, American Airlines passenger aircraft and US military black Hawk helicopters collided with the Potmax River.
![File Photo: Russian Pair Evgenia Shishikova and Vadim Naumov will run a short program during the pair competition in the World Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton, Canada on March 19, 1996. Reuters/Mike Break/File Photo](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-01-30T074105Z_1212872869_RC27KCAL42YQ_RTRMADP_3_USA-CRASH-RUSSIA-SKATERS-1738227332.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C1039)
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