There were no survivors in the crash, officials said. Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D. The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces.
There were no survivors. There were 64 passengers aboard the plane and three Army soldiers in the helicopter. Among the victims were 14 people who were returning home from a national figure skating development camp in Wichita, Kansas, according to Doug Zeghibe, the CEO and executive director for the Skating Club of Boston.
Everyone is like family," Zeghibe said in a statement. Here's what we know about the victims so far:. Dustin Miller was a longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan who waited his entire life to watch his hometown team β once the worst in the league β reach the heights of a potential Super Bowl three-peat. Dustin was among those killed on American Airlines Flight , and now his family now plans to watch this weekend's game in his memory. His hobbies included fishing, camping, smoking meats, and flying drones, his family said.
Miller's family remembers Dustin as a kind-hearted brother and uncle who was always generous with his time and possessed an uncanny ability to make friends wherever he went. The founders of Premium Grain, Inc. They were traveling to Pennsylvania to visit their daughter in college, multiple local outlets reported. A memorial and funeral for the couple is scheduled for this weekend. Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, a married couple, were killed in the crash, according to the Skating Club of Boston.
Naumov and Shishkova, who were figure skating coaches, were world champions in pairs competition in Jinna Han, a figure skater, and Jin Han, her mother, were killed in the crash, according to the Skating Club of Boston. Spencer Lane, 16, "just had amazing athletic abilities," and once he got interested in something, "you couldn't stop him," his father said.
