2 Beautiful Russian Launchers Become American Airlines CRJ700 Passengers Who Collisioned With Black Hawk

ILLUSTRATION OF UNSPLASH/Joshua Hanson

JAKARTA - The beautiful skating athletes and coaches who returned from the national championship were on an American Airlines plane colliding with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, Washington, United States.

"US. Figure Skating can confirm that some of our skating members were aboard the American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with last night's helicopter in Washington, DC." the organization said in a statement reported by ABC News, Thursday, January 30.

"The athletes, coaches, and family members returned from the National Camp which was held in conjunction with the US Indah Surfing Championships in faraway, Kansas," the statement added.

Meanwhile, Russian media reported that two Russian skating athletes were aboard an American Airlines plane colliding with an Army helicopter outside the DC.

A spokesman for the Russian presidency, the Kremlin, expressed his condolences to their families and friends who died in the plane crash.

"There are other citizens of our country there. Bad news came from Washington today," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday morning.

Earlier, several Russian state media reported paired skating world champions in 1994, Evgenia SHishkova and Vadim Naumov, on board the plane, although US authorities have not confirmed the report.