Bodies of married Russian figure skaters who were on doomed Washington DC plane have been found
Bodies of married Russian figure skaters who were on doomed Washington DC plane have been found
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The bodies of Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov have been found after they were on board the American Airlines flight that crashed in Washington DC on Wednesday night. Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, moving slowly under rainy skies and scanning the shoreline as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that killed 67 people. No one survived the Wednesday night collision between the commercial airliner and an Army helicopter.
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More than 40 bodies have been pulled from the river as the massive recovery effort continued Friday. And reports in Russia have quoted renowned figure skating coach Lyudmila Velikova, who confirmed that the bodies of Shishkova and Naumov have been found. They were not the only Russians on board the plane. Soviet figure skater Inna Volyanskaya, who worked in the US as a coach was also a passenger. Natalia Gudina also reported the death of her husband, former figure skater Alexander Kirsanov.
The bodies of Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov have been found. Shishkova and Naumov won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships in Chiba, Japan. Shishkova and Naumov won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships in Chiba, Japan. They also competed twice in the Olympics. They coached American skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, who were also among those killed along with their mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane.
Han and Lane were returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Skating organizations in Philadelphia and the Washington area also said some of their young athletes had been aboard the plane. In Virginia's Loudoun County, a coach at a skating club was also identified as among the passengers, Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam confirmed. The club, Ashburn Ice House, said that its 'figure skating community has been directly affected,' but did not give further details.
