The aircraft accident near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night hit the sports world when it was revealed that members of the art skating were among them on the American Airlines flight.
Six members of the Skating Club of Boston were aboard Flight 5342, and the US Art Skating said in a statement that “several members of our skating” were in the plane.
The commercial jet collided with an army helicopter, resulting in the supposed deaths for all 67 people aboard the two aircraft combined.
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Rescuers traveled after a passenger jet collided with an army helicopter in Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday. (AP) (Associated Press)
After hearing that the flight transported athletes, potentially those with Olympic dreams, gold medal -puts Ryan Crouser that the news hit closer to the home.
“It’s really difficult to kind of process. As an athlete, you spend a lot of time traveling and getting on flights,” Crouser said in a recent interview with Pakinomist Digital. “It’s a really difficult time, I think, right now just like a country, and like athlete too, just thinking about, ‘shooting, it could have been me.'”
Ryan Crouser from Team USA competes during the men’s shots, which ended on day 8 in the Paris Olympic Games at Stade de France on August 3, 2024. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
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For the three-time gold medal, it was another reminder not to take what he has for granted.
“My heart goes out to families, and if nothing else, just to be grateful for every day. You have so many great opportunities in front of you but you don’t know when it can be taken away, and in a crazy accident like that, definitely a hard time and my heart goes out to the families.
The first respondents switched to recovery efforts on the Potomac River after it was assumed that there were no survivors. There were 60 passengers and four crew members aboard the American Airlines flight and three soldiers aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter.
The FBI agents are close to waste on Thursday after the American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a black Hawk helicopter as he approached Reagan Washington National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River the previous night. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Two former Olympiers, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were also believed to be among the victims of the crash, the Kremlin confirmed.
