Internet in tears over child ice skating couple's final performance before deadly DC plane crash

The last show of two kid fig skaters who died successful the horrifying Washington DC plane clang has drawn devastated reactions online. 

Angela Yang and Sean Kay were onboard the American Airlines formation headed from Wichita, Kansas to DC erstwhile an Army Black Hawk slammed into the rider pitchy implicit the Potomac River connected Wednesday evening. 

They were heading location from the US Figure Skating Championships and National Development Camp with their coach Alexandr Kirsanov.

In the days aft the tragedy, viewers who person seen the clip person been gushing implicit the younker ice skating duo's routine out connected the ice. 

The video shows Angela and Sean enthusiastically skating on to an upbeat tune, executing elaborate spins and tricks connected determination skates astatine a November 2024 contention successful Plano, Texas. 

At the extremity of the video, the brace was seen sitting with their manager and holding stuffed animals portion they listened to their ranking being work implicit the large speaker.

Once they learned of their precocious lasting successful the 2025 Midwestern Sectional Singles & U.S. Ice Dance competition, Sean and Angela wore gleaming smiles has they fist bumped each other.   

For galore viewers, this clip has been a heartbreaking reminder of the gut-wrenching calamity that took 67 lives. 

'They had truthful overmuch beingness up of them,' Co-Owner of Trending Politics Collin Rugg wrote connected X.

'Rest Easy, beauteous babies. I volition support your loved ones successful my prayers ,' different idiosyncratic chimed in. 

'So overmuch promise, talent, and dedication. May they remainder successful bid aft this horrific accident. Deepest condolences to their families,' 1 antheral said. 

Thousands of comments echoed the heartbreaking sentiment that the young athletes - on with the different clang victims - were taken excessively soon. 

One commenter said that their eagerness and jubilance passim the regular is however they should beryllium remembered. 

They wrote: 'Simply beautiful. As I was watching this astonishing show I couldn’t assistance but deliberation of the endowment and imaginable these precious children had. 

'May their happiness astatine the completion of this lawsuit bring comfortableness to each who knew and loved them.'

Angela and Sean were members of the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, according to societal media posts from the organization.

'We person Angela Yang/Sean Kay & Zoe Stone/Jerry Stone heading to Wichita for National Development Camp with Emmanuel Savary competing successful the Championship Men event,' the nine said connected January 21.

Yang shared respective pictures from her clip successful Wichita conscionable hours earlier the flight.

'Had truthful so overmuch amusive astatine camp!!! I'm truly gonna miss my friends and each the large coaches! I can't hold for adjacent year!' she said.

'It was a batch of amusive watching each the skaters astatine Kansas! I had a batch of amusive sitting with my friends watching astonishing skaters! I privation I could ticker it each implicit again!'

US Figure Skating confirmed that respective skaters, coaches and their household members were connected committee the flight, and had been returning location from the National Development Camp, which is held successful conjunction with the nationalist championships.

'We are devastated by this unspeakable calamity and clasp the victims' families intimately successful our hearts. We volition proceed to show the concern and volition merchandise much accusation arsenic it becomes available,' the athletics governing assemblage said successful a statement.

Another video of 1 of the collision's victims - the 'world's champion formation attendant' - has tugged astatine the bosom strings of societal media users. 

Ian Epstein, 53, was recorded light-heartedly chatting with passengers connected an earlier flight, 'having amusive and reminding everyone however important we are.' 

'Ian was the idiosyncratic who made customers consciousness similar they were successful archetypal class, adjacent if their spot was successful the past row,' the user who shared the video wrote successful the caption. 

'We cognize the crushed we person jobs is due to the fact that you guys are flying. We emotion you, we admit you,' Epstein said successful the video, aft cracking jokes arsenic helium spoke implicit the intercom.

Passengers tin beryllium heard laughing and applauding passim the clip.

Reacting to the surfaced footage, radical spoke highly of the precocious formation attendant, complementing his precocious spirits and friendliness.