A tragic accident occurred Wednesday night when an American Airlines plane collided with a helicopter carrying soldiers. The crash claimed the lives of multiple passengers, including two young figure skaters, their parents, coaches, and a flight attendant. The Skating Club of Boston confirmed the deaths of Jinna Han, Spencer Lane, along with their parents and coaches Evgenia Shishkova, Vadim Naumov. Other victims included Inna Volyanskaya, a former Soviet skater and coach, and Ian Epstein, a North Carolina-based flight attendant.
Two skaters, their parents and coaches were on the American Airlines plane that collided with helicoptercarrying three soldiers were young figure skaters returning from the US figure skating championships, along with their parents and coaches, and a North Carolina-based flight attendant.
The most recent post on Lane’s Instagram profile was a photograph from the inside of a plane on a runway, with the caption “ICT -> DCA” – the codes for Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower National airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National airport in Washington DC.The Russian-born ice-skating coaches and former world champions Shishkova and Naumov were married and had lived in the US since 1998. They won the 1994 world championships in pairs figure skating.
In a statement, US Figure Skating, the sport’s domestic governing body, said: “We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims’ families closely in our hearts.” Gudin, who is also an ice-skating coach, told the outlet she decided to stay home in Delaware while her husband flew to Kansas for the camp and that she last spoke with him as he boarded the flight on Wednesday.
Debi Epstein wrote in a post on Facebook that it is “with very heavy heart and extreme sadness that myself along with our children Hannah Epstein and Joanna Epstein and his sister Robbie Epstein Bloom her husband Steven Bloom and nieces Andi and Dani inform you that Ian Epstein was one of the flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 5342 that collided last night when they were landing in DC”.
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