Skater, 14, in heartbreaking video before dying in plane crash with sister and parents

Everly Livingston, 14, from Virginia, and her sister 11-year-old Alydia mislaid their lives erstwhile a Black Hawk chopper and their rider formation collided successful Washington DC

This is the heartbreaking infinitesimal a 14-year-old figure skater shared her dreams earlier she was killed successful the American Airlines crash alongside her small sister and parents.

Everly Livingston, 14, from Virginia, and her sister 11-year-old Alydia mislaid their lives connected Wednesday evening erstwhile an American Black Hawk chopper crashed into the rider flight. The young athletes, dubbed "Ice Skating Sisters", were onboard the formation with their parents, Peter and Donna Livingston.

Last year, Everly spoke astir her achievements and she was rapidly becoming a immense endowment wrong the crystal skating world. In the video, she spoke astir her aims of being portion of Team USA. She told Fox 5 DC: "My goals are to really beryllium a portion of Team USA and question astir the world."

According to a tribute posted online by "The Skating Lesson", the teen was "shy and reserved compared to her sister, yet came unrecorded connected the crystal - becoming a sectional champion successful the intermediate and juvenile levels."

The girls were excited to beryllium attending the US US Figure Skating Championships successful Wichita, Kansas, past week, and successful a moving station connected Instagram, the brace were seen smiling successful beforehand of the crystal rink conscionable 5 days earlier the devastating crash. "If you look intimately astatine Alydia's badge... We were calved acceptable for this,' the caption read. 'But is @usfigureskating acceptable for this overmuch Livingston astatine Nationals?"

Everly's manager had praised her and her spouse Franco Aparicio for their hard enactment and dedication successful a abstracted post. "Congratulations connected Everly and Franco for making it to the nationalist improvement campy for their 2nd year!' the station read." So arrogant of each their hard enactment and grooming they person done to get here. What an astonishing mode to commencement disconnected the year!'

Everly's ambition was to marque it backmost to the US Figure Skating Development Team for the 2nd clip but tragically that has been taken distant from her. "The play is officially implicit and Everly is walking distant with different measurement successful her fig skating travel with making the USFS precocious show improvement squad for the 2024-2025 season,' said a station connected the girls' shared Instagram leafage successful November.

Meanwhile, a heartbroken fig skater who flew location a time earlier than her friends has paid an affectional tribute to her "baby skating sister" pursuing the tragic American Airlines crash. Audrey Shin spoke glowingly of 13-year-old Jinna Han who died pursuing the devastating mid-air collision betwixt an Army Black Hawk helicopter and Flight 5342 implicit the Potomac River successful Washington DC

Audrey had competed with her friends astatine the National Development Camp during the US Figure Skating Championships successful Wichita past week but decided to travel location conscionable a fewer time earlier than immoderate of her chap skaters.

The passengers included 13-year-old Jinna Han, who she described arsenic her "my small babe skating sister", and her mum Jin. “Jinna, my small babe skating sister… I don’t judge it. So heartbroken close now,” she said. “She was connected the formation with her ma coming backmost from the skating camp,” Shin told the outlet. “I conscionable consciousness similar it’s a imagination close now, similar a truly atrocious nightmare.”