US and Russian figure skaters were on board crashed plane
Boston’s band club said that a pair of 16 -year -old skating athletes, their mother and two Russian coaches were passengers on an airplane that hit a helicopter on Wednesday evening on Wednesday night.
They were named young, Spencer Lane and Jinna Hayn, mother Christine Lane, Jin Hahn, and their Russian coach Yev Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who used to be the world champion skaters.
US officials said they would not expect any survivors to crash, and at least 28 corpses have been recycled from the scene.
At 21:00, at 21:00 at 21:00 at 21:00 at 21:00 at 21:00 (Standard Time of Greenwich) on Wednesday, 64 passengers and crew members in the air were collided in the air.
Then it fell into the cold Poto Mark River.
A source who did not be named told Luyouhe News Agency that there were as many as 15 people in the flight.
The American director of the sport said that “several” and “several” athletes, coaches and family members are flying. No more names have been given.
Doug Zeghibe, chief executive of Boston Falter Skating Club, told reporters: “Six people are a terrible number for us.” He then said: “This will have a long -term impact on our skating community. “
Earlier on Thursday, Russia confirmed that after the Russian media reported the names of Namov and Shishkova, some citizens of Russia had been on the plane.
In our own statement, our figure skating said: “Several members of our skating community are sad on the US Airlines 5342.” The statement added that the organization was returning home from a developing camp in Weichito, Kansas.
From January 20th to January 26, Wicho held the National National Falter Skating Championship. After the game, there is a development camp for young skaters.
Shishkova and Naumov are retired Russian double skaters who won the world championship in 1994. They also participated in the Olympic Games and later started their coaching career in the United States.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the Soviet front skaters Inna Volyanskya is also flying.
The rescue team is continuing to search for the frozen waters of the Poto Mark River, and the residues of the two aircraft are still retained there. On Thursday morning, officials said that they had changed to restore operations.
The nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport put all flights on all flights after a crash on Wednesday night.
In addition to the total number of uninteresting skaters, personal information on the ship is limited.
In 1961, the 18 -member American skating team was killed in a plane crash on the Belgium on the way to Prague.