World champion skaters, a consultant who just moved to the D. Sixty passengers and four Charlotte-based crew members were on American Eagle flight , en route from Wichita, Kansas, and three crew members were aboard the Black Hawk helicopter when they collided a little before 9 p.
Investigators are still working to learn what went wrong on a clear evening when the passenger plane was just a few hundred feet from landing at Reagan Washington National Airport. Officials said there were no survivors — and details about the 67 victims began to emerge. The passengers included several young figure skaters chasing their dream of becoming world-class competitors. The athletes were returning from the National Development Camp, which was held in connection with the recent U.
Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. The Skating Club of Boston confirmed they lost six people in the deadly crash, including two rising stars in the figure skating world, their mothers, and two star coaches. We are also learning more about others aboard the flight, as well as the crew of the Black Hawk.
Here are some of their stories. Rebecca Lobach. She had served as an aviation officer in the Army since July and also worked as a White House aide in the Biden administration, officials said. She attended Sewanee: The University of the South, where she played basketball, and then later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed a degree in biology in as a distinguished military graduate, according to Brown.
Lobach's family in a statement released through the Army described her as a "bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. Ryan O'Hara, 28, was the crew chief on the Black Hawk helicopter. He grew up in the Atlanta area and was a new father, leaving behind a wife and 1-year-old baby boy. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, he was assigned to Fort Belvoir in Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.
