The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches ...
In 1961, the entire U.S. national team lost their lives in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
The camp and the people who are on the plane are really truly like the next generation of skaters,” said Bonnie Lewis, a ...
The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same ...
Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.
The plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., was carrying an unknown number of passengers from the figure skating community, including Russian husband-and-wife world champions. Wichita, Kansas, had ...
The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the ...
Sixty passengers and four crew members on the flight, along with three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter, are presumed dead.
Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating ...
Several coaches and skaters with the United States figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., ...
The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.