The airplane crash close to Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport on Wednesday evening struck the sports activities world when it was revealed that members of the determine skating neighborhood have been amongst these on the American Airways flight.
Six members of the Skating Membership of Boston have been aboard Flight 5342, and U.S. Determine Skating mentioned in a press release that “a number of members of our skating neighborhood” have been on the airplane.
The business jet collided with an Military helicopter, ensuing within the presumed deaths of all 67 folks on board the 2 plane mixed.
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Rescuers set out after a passenger jet collided with an Military helicopter at Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport on Wednesday. (AP) (Related Press)
After listening to that the flight carried athletes, doubtlessly these with Olympic goals, gold medal shot putter Ryan Crouser mentioned the information hit nearer to house.
“It is actually troublesome to form of course of. As an athlete you spend lots of time touring and getting on planes,” Crouser mentioned in a latest interview with Fox Information Digital. “It’s a very troublesome time, I feel, proper now simply as a rustic, and as an athlete as properly, simply interested by, ‘Shoot, that might have been me.’”
Ryan Crouser of Staff USA competes throughout the males’s shot put remaining on day 8 of the Olympic Video games Paris at Stade de France on Aug. 3, 2024. (Patrick Smith/Getty Pictures)
For the three-time gold medalist, it was one other reminder to not take what he has with no consideration.
“My coronary heart goes out to the households, and if nothing else, simply to be pleased about day by day. You may have so many nice alternatives forward of you, however you do not know when that may be taken away, and in a loopy accident like that, positively a troublesome time, and my coronary heart goes out to the households.”
First responders switched to restoration efforts on the Potomac River after it was believed that there have been no survivors. There have been 60 passengers and 4 crew members aboard the American Airways flight and three troopers aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
FBI brokers stand close to particles on Thursday after American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter whereas approaching Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport and crashed into the Potomac River the earlier evening. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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Two former Olympians, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, have been additionally believed to be among the many victims of the crash, the Kremlin confirmed.
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj and the Related Press contributed to this report.
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