Washington Flight Current|Yevgenija šškova and Vadim Naumov have won the world championship together.
Russian The news agency Tass says that there were two Russian figure skaters on a helicopter in Washington.
Based on its source, the news agency reported that there were former figure skaters on the American Airlines flight and coached figure skating Yevgeny Šiskova52, and Vadim Naumov55.
Married šškova and Naumov won the World Cup World Championship in 1994.
The couple moved to the United States in the late 1990s. Their sons Maxim Born in the United States in 2001.
The US Figure Skating Association told Reuters that there were several members of the skating community in the accident.
Wichita recently hosted the US Championship.
American Eaglen Flight AA 5342 was coming from Kansas from Wichita to Washington and was supposed to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
The military helicopter had left for a training flight from the Fort Belvoir base, less than 30 kilometers from the accident site.
A passenger plane and a helicopter collided with local time at 8:53 pm Wednesday evening, which was Finnish time just before four in the morning.
Washington mayor Muriel Bowser It has confirmed that there were 64 people in the American Airlines accident and three soldiers in a military helicopter. Both of the accident machines are in the Potomacjoki.
No survivors have been found at this stage. According to the latest information, 18 bodies have been found.
Fire chief John A. Donnelly reported that rescue work is now focusing on finding and rescuing people from the water. He described the rescue conditions as “dangerous” in the darkness of the night.