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The American Airlines, who killed 14 figure skaters after colliding with an army helicopter, has strikingly similar parallels with a 1961 collision, which killed the entire US team, according to the CEO of Boston Doug Zeghibe.
“I think the last thing I want to say is not the first time this club has experienced such a tragedy,” Zeghibe said NBC10 On Thursday, January 30, one day after there was an AA crash. “Now it is ways back, but in 1961 the world team of American figure skating was lost on the way to the Prague World Championship in an air accident in Belgium.”
Zeghibe explained that “almost half” passengers aboard the aircraft in 1961 came from the Boston skating club.
“It had long, long and achieved the consequences for this skating club and for sport in this country,” Zeghibe said. “Because if you lose such coaches, you will also lose the future of sport.” It has been a long time in its reconstruction and I personally feel that this club, skating in Boston, just now, almost 60 years later, is based on the shadow of this 1961 accident. So this is especially devastating. ”
The world of figure skating deals with the main loss after American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed with more community members on board. On Thursday, January 30, the press conference, CEO of Skating Boston, Doug Zeghibe, “to our best knowledge, 14 skaters who return home” from the American figure skating National (…)
In February 1961, Sabena Flight 548 was transported by an American team at the World Figure Skating Championship in Prague in Czechoslovakia. Among the people who died in the crash included 16 family members, coaches and skaters friends.
More than 60 years later, on Wednesday, January 29, the news that the aircraft crashed into an army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport and fell into the Poterac river while trying to land in Washington, DC Wusa9 reported ”. Since then, more than a dozen bodies have been obtained from the water.
Between Reported 60 passengers and four crew members on flight 5342 who left Kansas on Wednesday Included Associated with skating the Boston club.
The American figure skating announced that the American Airlines Flight 5342 carried several of its athletes when he hit the Souchac River. The organization provided a statement for Wusa9 intelligence on Thursday 30 January. “The US Horizon Skating may confirm that several members of our skating community unfortunately on board the American Airlines Flight 5342, which (…)
“Our sport and this club have suffered terrible loss with this tragedy,” Zeghibe said in a statement. “Skating is a fixed community where parents and children meet 6 to 7 days a week to train and cooperate. Everyone is like a family. Of the skaters, coaches and parents on the plane, we believe that six were from skating in Boston. We are destroyed and completely in the loss of words. ”
The statement continued: “These athletes, coaches and parents returned from the US National Development Camp, after last week the US Championship in Wichita. This camp is designed for young competitive skaters tomorrow with the most promising that they will be a champion tomorrow. The club sent 18 athletes to compete at American championships. He sent 12 athletes to the National Development Camp. ”
Some of the passengers on the flight left the Championship in 2025 by the US Prevagen, which took place in Wichita from 20 to 26 January. The US figure skating website shared that the reception was held to indicate the induction of the Hall of Fame class from 2025.
