Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,

By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington

Members of the United States figure skating community were on board an aeroplane that crashed near Washington DC, the country's governing organisation for the sport says.

Figure skaters from the United States and Russia, their coaches and family members were passengers on an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C.

A tragic midair collision near Washington claimed the lives of married figure skating champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.