Photographs of athletes Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, and coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, displayed at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
A number of figure skaters – including six people associated with the Figure Skating Club of Boston – were among the passengers on board an aeroplane that hit a helicopter above Washington DC on Wednesday evening.
The group from Boston include two former Russian world champions who are now coaches as well as two young skaters and their mothers.
“Several” athletes, coaches and family members involved with US Figure Skating were on the flight, the sport’s US governing body said.
It is yet to give more names.
US officials say they do not expect any survivors from the crash.
They say at least 28 bodies have been recovered from the scene.
The plane was carrying 64 passengers and crew when it collided in mid-air with a US Army helicopter and then fell into the ice-cold Potomac River.
As many as 15 people on the flight may have been involved in figure skating.
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