The Skating Club of Boston offers support resources after members killed in DC plane crash

Figure skating coaches who died in plane crash remembered in Simsbury: ‘You will never be forgotten and forever loved’

SIMSBURY – About 150 people gathered Monday afternoon at the International Skating Center of Connecticut for a national moment of silence for the figure skaters, coaches and families who were killed in the American Airlines plane crash last Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. Two of the coaches who died, Russian Olympians Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, had skated as professionals and coached at the Simsbury ice rink from the time they moved…

The Skating Club of Boston offers support resources after members killed in DC plane crash

NORWOOD, Mass. (WWLP) - The American Red Cross of Massachusetts will continue to offer a care support team to those overcome with grief after six members of The Skating Club of Boston were among those who were killed in a plane crash last week. Sixty-four people on an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, collided w…

Salvage operations underway in DC plane crash

Special salvage cranes are in position to begin lifting wreckage of the American Airlines jetliner from the icy waters of the Potomac River following the midair collision with a Black Hawk helicopter last week. Investigators are hoping to find the 12 remaining victims. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

Grieving family members visit site of DC plane crash

John McDonnell/ for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Family members of the victims of the plane crash in Washington, D.C., visited the crash site on Sunday morning. Dozens of the victims’ loved ones could be seen gathered by the Potomac River to commemorate the 67 people killed in the deadly midair collision last week. An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night near Ron…

DC plane crash live updates: Crews begin removing wreckage from Potomac River

None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived

DC plane crash victims: Mom, dad and 2 daughters among the 67 killed | TALK! 100.7 FM

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation’s first major commercial airline crash since 2009. The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces. There were no survivors. There were 64 passengers aboard the plane and three Army soldiers in the helicopter. Among th…