The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that as a result of a crash in Washington, Russian citizens died

Among those killed in a plane crash in Washington – three Russian citizens, the presence of Russian citizenship with another victim of the plane crash is being specified, said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.

Earlier it was reported that on board the aircraft falling in Washington were the world figurators in pairs in the Russian national team Yevgeny Shishkova (52) and Vadim Naumov (55). Together with them was their son Maxim. Shishkova and Naumov worked for many years coaches in the United States. They lived in America since 1998. Maxim was professionally engaged in figure skating.

Together with them, on board the aircraft was a well -known Soviet skater Inna Volyanskaya, who served as a coach in the Ashburn Ice House from Virginia. She, like her colleagues, returned to Washington after the US Figure Skating Championship.

Also on the plane, the skater Alisa Efimova, who had previously played for Russia, flew on an airplane.

In total, on board the aircraft were at least 14 artists and their coaches.

On the evening of January 29, in Washington, near the Reagan Airport, the PSA Airlines passenger aircraft Passenger aircraft, the American Airlines subsidiaries, which followed the American Eagle 5342 flight to Winichito (Kansas) to Washington, and Sikorssky military helicopter L Black Hawk, Fly from the fort beaver, Virginia (about 40 km from Washington). The collision occurred about half a mile from the landing strip. The explosion followed. Then the plane fell into the river and broke into two parts. As a result of the plane crashes, 67 people were killed – 60 passengers and four members of the crew of a civilian aircraft, as well as three military pilots in a helicopter.

The investigation of the incident is engaged in the FAA and the National Security Council on transport. US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset announced the investigation of a plane crash over Washington through his department.

The FBI rejected the assumptions that the plane crash in Washington occurred due to the actions of the terrorists.

At the same time, the Reagan Airport dispatch service says that she warned the helicopter crew of dangerous rapprochement with a landing aircraft. But there was no reaction.