Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton Friday, the victims of the artistic skating community have tears when he remembered the victims of the artistic skating community after a flight from American Airlines in Kansas development trip to Washington, DC, collided with An army helicopter in the air Wednesday evening.
The quadruple male world champion in simple spoke with emotion of victims during an appearance Today But called the reality of this “overwhelming” week’s tragedy.
Artistic skater Scott Hamilton in the United States in competition in the artistic skating competition at the Olympic Winter Olympic Games XIV around 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Focus on sport / getty images)
“To make it happen only a few days after the end of these championships is simply devastating, shocking – it simply makes no sense … We are not foreign to tragedy, but it was just beyond devastation. “
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Managers said that 14 skaters, coaches and family members were aboard the American Airlines 5342 flight when he collided with a Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, near DC , around 9 p.m.
Many victims have been identified, in particular Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, The famous ice skating coaches who won a title of world champion together in 1994.
The Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov world champions in Russia are launching during the short competition of pairs during the global artistic skating competition in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, March 19, 1996. (Dave Buston / The Canadian Press via AP, file)
Young Sisters of Virginia Figure Skating among the victims killed in a DC plane accident
Hamilton became emotional When he spoke of the couple, who settled in America to become coaches after their successful careers, who resulted in two Olympic appearances. He saw them a few days before the accident when he attended the American Kansas Figure Skating Championships.
“I sat with them for a good visit to Wichita,” recalls Hamilton on Friday. “”
“To think that they left is, uh, I cannot wrap the head of the last 36 hours. It has been devastating, and the loss is just beyond the description. My heart is broken.”
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naunov of Russia occur during free skating in the event of pairs of the International Artistic Skating Competition of the NHK Trophy in Nagoya, Japan, December 9, 1995. AP Photo / Shizuo Kambayashi, file, file
Shishkova and Naumov married in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1995, and they moved to Connecticut. They had a son, Maxim, who participated in male singles in the United States, he was in Kansas but did not return with his parents. The Russian pair was coaches of the Boston skating club.
Sixty passengers and four crew members of the American Airlines Airlines and three soldiers aboard a training flight on the helicopter are presumed dead.
