The skiing organization continues in the United States Mourning You lost a fatal way Washington plane crash.
“Honoring those whom we lost tragically,” the team wrote via Instagram Monday, February 3. “Their memory will live forever. 🖤”
This post included a video montage for passengers competing in various competitions long before the independence of a plane tragicly collided with a helicopter in Washington, DC on January 29.
“On the anniversary of 28 athletes, coaches and family members who died in the tragic accident of the 5342 US Airlines flight,” the video stated.
In addition to honoring missing lives on social media, the American ice ski organization is Help those who were directly affected By modern Crash.
“The ice family in the United States has suffered an unimaginable loss when many members of our society – athletes, coaches and family members – launched the American Airlines Flight 5342.” Read. “These individuals were returning to their homes from the National Development Camp in Witchita, Kansas, the place where young skiers take their next steps towards their dreams. We have been destroyed from this loss and we carry the loved ones of the victims closely in our hearts.”
In response, the organization announced that it had created “the ice skating family support fund in the United States to provide financial assistance to ice skating families in the United States directly affected by the tragedy.”
Two victims attracted the attention of the mourners Skat number Everly and Alydia Livingston.
The sisters were members of the ice skating club in Washington and attended the skiing championship in the United States in Whitchta, Kansas. In the final Instagram After post, the sisters collected the ski circuit in the Arrust Bank Arena, which hosted the event.
in Emotional interviewSki on the Olympic number Scott Hamilton Try to understand the tragedy that took the lives of many talented athletes.
Hamilton, 66, said through tears during the appearance of January 31 on January 31 today Show. “It is outside the ski community. Many people see this tragedy and the loss of these brilliant young skiers who poured their lives to build an identity in our sport. To take their lives … just destroyed (and) shock. It is just meaningless.”
Hamilton continued to praise the skiing community of ice “very narrow, very interrelated, very wonderful, care, supportive”.
He added: “We are not strange to the tragedy, but this goes beyond the destruction.”