U.S. Figure Skating Championships results for the men's, women's, pairs' and ice dance events in Wichita, Kansas.
Gold medalist Brian Boitano said his “heart breaks” for those impacted by the American Airlines flight 5342 crash after a memorable week in Wichita, his mother’s hometown
The world of competitive figure skating is back, The U.S. Figure Skating Championships will take place this weekend in Wichita, Kansas, and will be carried on NBC, Peacock, and USA Network.
Officials from the national figure skating organization and East Coast-based clubs confirmed that skaters, coaches and family members were among those lost in Wednesday's crash.
Amber Glenn, a 25-year-old from Plano who defended her U.S. figure skating championship last week in Wichita, was also among the community within the sport devastated by the news. “I’m in complete shock. I’m sorry I don’t even know what to say,” Glenn posted to Instagram on Thursday morning.
Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.
A crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter also claimed the lives of students, as a group of union steamfitters from the Washington, D.C.,
Kim Navarro, the director of skating at Snoopy’s Home Ice who attended last week’s U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, knew some of the skaters killed in Wednesday’s plane crash in Washington,
Investigators are still working to establish the cause of the crash which killed 67 people when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet.
Here are some of the victims of the tragedy identified so far. First Officer Sam Lilley and Capt. Jonathan Campos Sam Lilley, a young fiancé awaiting his fall wedding, was piloting the American Airlines flight that was minutes away from a safe landing when a collision with an Army helicopter plunged both aircrafts and everyone on board into Virginia’s Potomac River.
Neither American Airlines nor U.S. aviation authorities have released an official list of the passengers and crew aboard the commercial flight, but a number of them have been identified in media reports.