World champion Russian figure skaters reported to have been on board crashed US plane | Figure skating

Many skiing were on a US aircraft on US Airways on board US Airways It was destroyed near Ronald Reagan’s National Airport Wednesday.

The plane, with 64 passengers and crew, was on their way Washington, DCFrom Witchita, Kansas, when he participated in the air collision with the American army helicopter. The ruling ice skiing body in the United States confirmed that athletes, trainers and family members were returning from the National Development Camp that was held with the United States Championship in Kansas.

He said in a statement, “We have destroyed this indescribable tragedy and hold the families of the victims closely in our hearts,” he said in a statement. “We will continue to monitor the situation and we will issue more information when it is available.” A source told Reuters that up to 15 people on the trip may be involved in ice skiing. Officials did not say the number of people who died in the accident, but they suggested that there may be no survivors.

Meanwhile, the Russian government media reported that former skiing coaches and world championships, Evjnia Shishkova and Fadiim Numov, were among those on board. Perhaps their son, Maxim, who is also skiing, may be on board, according to news agencies in Russia and Raya.

Shishkova and Nomov, who married the world championship in husbands in 1994 and lived in the United States, won the young ice skating. Maxim Nomov was competing in the United States ice ski championship in Wchita, according to the event site.

Tass said that Ena Fulleskaya, a former skate that competed in the Soviet Union, was on board. She was a coach in the ice club in Washington, according to his website.