Russian skating couple, world champions in 1990s, were in crashed US airliner

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – 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, the Kremlin and state media said.

Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994, and U.S. media said they had lived in the United States since at least 1998, where they trained young ice skaters.

Scores of people were feared dead after the American Airlines passenger jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and plummeted into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.

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