Who was on board American Airlines Flight 5342?
Among the 60 passengers were 14 American figure skaters, coaches and family members who were at a camp in Wichita, can., According to the US figure skating.
“These athletes, coaches and family members returned home from the national development camp held in connection with the US figure skating championship,” divided the governing body into a statement obtained by NBC News. “We are destroyed by this unthinkable tragedy and keep the victim’s families close in our hearts.”
World champion Russian figure skating duo Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim NaumovAs married in 1995, was also on board, Russian state media confirmed.
“Bad news from Washington today,” Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, Per NBC News. “We are grieving and consolming with the families and friends who lost those of our citizens who died in this flight crash.”
Hamaa Razawhose wife was also at American Airlines Flight, waited for her at the international airport.
“I just pray someone pulls her out of the river right now when we speak,” he told the CBS connection WUSA9. “That’s all I can pray for. I just pray to God.”
A Cedarville University student, Grace MaxwellWas also on board the flight after participating in his grandfather’s funeral, the University said in a press release from 31 January.