Two former world champion skaters have been named as being on the American Airlines jet which crashed with a military helicopter over Washington DC on Wednesday.
Dozens of people have died after an American Airlines passenger plane was in a mid-air crash with a military helicopter in Washington DC. There were 64 people on the plane that departed from Witchita in Kansas and three US soldiers in the helicopter when the aircraft collided just before 9pm local time on Wednesday. Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered from the jet and one from the helicopter, authorities have said. They believe there are no survivors.
'We will continue to monitor the situation and will release more information as it becomes available,' it said in a statement. A man who said his daughter's best friend and her mother were on the jet when it crashed told Sky News they had been at an 'athletic trip' in Kansas. Russian world champions According to US media, Shishkova, 52, and Naumov, 55, had lived in America since at least 1998, where they trained young ice skaters.
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