Last weekend, the United States Championship was held in Wichita, followed by a training camp. The top skaters in the country finished on Wednesday and boarded the plane to return home. It was a flight from Kansas to the world.

Russian ice skating world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov and “several members” of the US figure skating team were on board the American Airlines flight that collided with a military helicopter on Wednesday night (Thursday AEDT).

Victims of the plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday night were contestants in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held from January 20 to January 26 in Wichita,