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Members of the fig skating assemblage are presumed to person been killed successful the level clang adjacent Reagan International Airport precocious Wednesday night.
The clang came hours up of the European Figure Skating Championships, which honored the victims successful a infinitesimal of soundlessness earlier skaters took the ice.
The legendary broadcast duo of Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir were connected the call, and earlier the skating occurred, they some offered affectional tributes.
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"As we travel connected the aerial for the European Figure Skating Championships, we are each hurting today. We were perfectly heartbroken astatine the quality that respective members of our skating assemblage were among those mislaid successful the tragic level clang successful Washington, D.C., past night," Weir began.
Weir past work disconnected portions of sentimental statements from U.S. Figure Skating and the International Skating Union.
After a infinitesimal of silence, presumably to clasp backmost tears, Lipinski offered her condolences.
"It is unimaginable loss. My bosom is wholly breached for our skating community, their families and loved ones. My bosom is with each of the families affected, and that’s the portion I person nary words for. It volition not bash it justice. It is truthful wide passim our skating community. We are specified a close-knit family, and I cognize our skating assemblage volition ne'er beryllium the same. But we volition ever retrieve them," Lipinski said.
Weir added, "Our occupation is to marque definite that everyone’s tone lives on. It’s a tremendous nonaccomplishment that our assemblage feels, and the sorrow that we consciousness for our tightknit assemblage and the symptom that we consciousness for our friends and colleagues is unimaginable today. My full bosom is with everybody affected by this unspeakable calamity – we are truthful devastated for your loss."
First responders switched to betterment efforts successful the Potomac River aft it was believed that determination were nary survivors. There were 60 passengers and 4 unit members aboard the American Airlines formation and 3 soldiers aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
Two erstwhile Olympians, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were besides believed to beryllium among the victims of the level crash, the Kremlin confirmed.
Fox News' Paulina Dedaj and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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