The bodies of the Figured Russian fans married Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov have been found after they were aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed in Washington DC DC on Wednesday night.
Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly moving under rainy skies and scanning the coast while the investigators were looking for clues about collision in the air that killed 67 people.
No one survived the collision on Wednesday night between the commercial plane and an army helicopter.
More than 40 bodies from the river have been taken as the mass recovery effort continued on Friday.
AND Reports in Russia They have summoned the famous artistic skating coach Lyudmila Velikova, who confirmed that the bodies of Shishkova and Naumov have been found.
They were not the only Russians aboard the plane, according to the report. The skater of the Soviet figure Inna Volyanskaya, who worked in the United States as a coach, was also a passenger and former artistic skater Alexander Kirsanov.
The bodies of the figurative sagadores Russians Shishkova and Vadim Naumov have been found
Shishkova and Naumov won the title of couples in the 1994 World Championship in Chiba, Japan
Shishkova and Naumov won the title of couples in the 1994 World Championship in Chiba, Japan. They also competed twice at the Olympic Games.
They trained the American skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, who were also among those killed along with their mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane.
Han and Lane returned from the United States artistic skating championship.
Skating organizations in Philadelphia and the Washington area also said that some of their young athletes had been aboard the plane.
In Virginia Loudoun County, a coach in a skating club was also identified as among the passengers, confirmed the representative of Virginia Suhas Subramanyam.
The club, Ashburn Ice House, said that his 'artistic skating community has been directly affected', but did not give more details.
Several athletes on the flight had attended a development camp held after the United States artistic skating championships ended Sunday in Wichita, Kansas.
Among those afflicted, Nancy Kerrigan, a former women's champion of the United States and twice Olympic and world medalist based in Boston, where world artistic skating championships will take place in March.
Skater Figure, Spencer Lane, 16, (Middle Backup) in the photo with Shishkova and Naumov, also died
Spencer Lane, 16, also shared this photo from inside the convicted American Airlines plane
“I'm not sure how to process it,” he said, breaking crying. “When you discover that you know some of the people on the plane, it is an even bigger blow.”
He added the reigning world and the US male champion. Uu. Ilia Malinin: 'I am disconsolate by the tragic loss of my companions skating in this devastating accident. This loss is beyond words.
Doug Zeghibe, executive director of the Boston Skating Club, confirmed that six club members were on the plane, including Shishkova and Naumov.
“As far as we know, 14 skaters who returned home … were lost in the plane crash,” said Zeghibe, who declared that the disaster would have “long -range impacts” for sport.
The figurative skating of the United States, in a statement, only confirmed that “several members of our skating community” were on the plane.
“We are devastated by this indescribable tragedy and keep the families of victims closely in our hearts.”
“I have never seen anyone who loves to skate as much as these two and that's why I think it hurts so much,” Kerrigan said about Han, 13, and Lane, 16.
'Children care. They work very hard to be here. His parents work hard … It is such a tragic event.
Jinna Han (in the photo of the front row in red) and his mother Jin were also confirmed as passengers
Nancy Kerrigan began to cry while talking outside the Boston Skating Club that lost six members of her group in the DC plane crash
The authorities have restricted helicopter traffic largely around the airport, hours after President Donald Trump affirmed in a social media post that the Black Hawk army had been flying higher than its allowed limit.
The airplanes continued to take off and land at the Reagan Reagan National Airport after the worst American aerial disaster in a generation, and the airport operations gradually returned to normal after a series of canceled and delayed flights after the accident.
The researchers have already recovered the voice recorder of the cabin and the flight recorder of the American Airlines plane, which hit the helicopter when the plane came to land at the airport next to Washington, DC
The officials are analyzing a variety of factors in what the national president of the Transportation Security Board, Jennifer Hommendy, has called an “event of all hands on the deck.”
The researchers are examining the actions of the military pilot, as well as air traffic control after the helicopter apparently flew to the plane path.
Air accident investigations normally take 12-18 months, and the researchers told journalists on Thursday that they would not speculate on the cause.