The passengers who were on board American Airlines flight that crashed with no survivors

At slightest 30 bodies person been recovered from a Washington DC craft collision, including a TikTok skating prima and a famed jock couple. 

Figure skater, Spencer Lane, 26, alongside Russian mates Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, person been confirmed dormant aft a determination rider pitchy and the US Army chopper crashed into the Potomac River aft a midair collision. 

The level had been approaching Reagan Washington National Airport connected Wednesday nighttime erstwhile the clang occurred, officials said. 

More than 60 radical were onboard and each died, officials said. At slightest 28 bodies person been recovered, according to DC Fire Chief John Donnelly said. 

'We volition enactment to find each the bodies and reunite them with their loved ones,' helium said astatine a Thursday property conference.  

US fig skating has 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.

American fig skater John Maravilla, arsenic reported by RIA Novosti, said: 'I don't privation to sanction names, but determination were astir 14 fig skaters connected the plane, not counting their parents and respective coaches.'

CBS News reported that a dive squad had recovered 1 of the 2 information recorders, the alleged achromatic boxes, from the plane. 

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said some the chopper and the airplane had been flying mean formation patterns. "This was not unusual," helium said. 

The Pentagon said it was launching an investigation.

In a station connected Truth Social, President Donald Trump questioned the actions of the chopper unit and aerial postulation controllers connected what helium described arsenic a wide night.

'This is simply a atrocious concern that looks similar it should person been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!,' helium wrote.

Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56

Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won the World Figure Skating Championship successful pairs successful 1994.

The joined mates was travelling backmost to DC connected Flight 5342 aft attending the US Figure Skating Championships successful Kansas.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Shishkova and Naumov were aboard the plane. 

'Unfortunately, we spot that this bittersweet accusation is being confirmed,' Peskov said.

'There were different chap citizens there. Bad quality contiguous from Washington. We are atrocious and nonstop condolences to the families and friends who mislaid those of our chap citizens who died successful the level crash.'

When asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to connection condolences to US President Donald Trump successful a telephone call, Peskov said determination were nary plans for high-level contacts for now. 

Ludmila Velikova, who trianed the mates erstwhile they were children, called the nonaccomplishment devastating. 

'They were my favourite sports people,' she told Reuters. 'They were portion of my archetypal effort astatine the satellite title and became champions successful 1994. They were talented and beauteous people.

'Apart from thing else, they were my children.' 

Shishkova started grooming with Veilkova astatine the property of 11 and Naumov astatine 14. 

'What's happened is awful,' she said from St. Petersburg. 'The champion radical person been taken distant from us.' 

Spencer Lane, 26

Spencer Lane uploaded the photo astir 7pm ET Wednesday, which appeared to amusement the pitchy taxiing connected the runway astatine Wichita Airport successful Kansas earlier it took disconnected for its last flight.

He captioned it ICT -> DCA - the codes for Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.