The ski world deals with a great loss After the US Airways flight is 5342 With many members of the community on board the plane.
During Thursday, January 30, press conference, the ski club on Boston's CEO, Doug Zigabi“As far as we knew, 14 skiing backgrounds” from the ski skiing championship in the United States in Whitchta, Kansas, were killed on Wednesday, January 29.
Zigabi explained, “We have lost our family,” they made it clear that the tragedy will have “long -term effects of our ski community.”
Boston's ski club sent 18 athletes to compete in the National Championship in Wchita. in A statement issued on ThursdayZigabi revealed the killing of six members of the club's community in the accident: 16 -year -old skiers Spencer Lane and awayTheir mothers, Christine Lynn and Jane Han, and coaches Vadim Nomov and Email Shishkova Shishkova.
Brian Bhutano, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the tragic crash of the plane that killed many American skiers after spending a special week alongside them in Witchita, Kansas. “My heart is separated from my family skiing and my ideas and my prayers to all those affected by this terrible tragedy.”
Numov and Shishakova, who were married, were world champions in 1994 in husbands. Share the couple the son, UpperWho competed and ranked fourth in the men's event in Whitchta, but he left on Monday, January 27, while his parents remained in Kansas for training in the National Skipping Camp.
“Our sport has suffered and this club a horrific loss with this tragedy,” the ski club statement said. “Ski is a coherent society where parents and children meet from 6 to 7 days a week to train and work together. Everyone is like family. Among the skiers, coaches and parents on board, we believe that six of the ski club in Boston. We are completely destroyed at a loss of words .
“These athletes, coaches, and parents were returning from the National Ski Development Camp in the United States, after the United States Championship last week in Whitch The United States Championship.
In a statement issued by ice skiing in the United States to the Wusa9 news port on Thursday, the organization confirmed that “many of our ski community members were on the American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in Washington, DC.”
Sixty passengers and four crew members on the plane, which collided with the army helicopter near Ronald Reagan's National Airport and fell in the Botomac River. It is not believed that there are any survivors.
