Wife of Delaware skating coach killed in DC plane crash left devastated by tragedy: ‘I lost everything’

The woman of a Delaware skating manager says she has "lost everything" aft learning that her hubby was one of the victims killed erstwhile an American Airlines level collided midair with an Army chopper successful Washington, D.C., precocious Wednesday night. 

Natalya Gudin told WPVI that she and her husband, Alexandr "Sasha" Kirsanov, were some skating coaches successful Delaware. She recalled the present heartbreaking determination that she and her hubby made that Kirsanov would question to Wichita, Kansas, for a improvement camp. 

Rescuers connected boats enactment arsenic the prima rises astatine the tract of the clang aft a Black Hawk chopper collided with American Eagle Flight 5342, which was approaching Reagan Washington National Airport, and crashed into the Potomac River, extracurricular of Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 30, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

"We are hubby and wife," she told the station. "We decided who's going, who's staying home," she said. "We decided helium would spell to the improvement camp."

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Kirsanov, 46, was 1 of 67 radical killed erstwhile American Airlines Flight 5342 and a UH-60 Black Hawk chopper collided adjacent Reagan Washington National Airport astatine astir 9 p.m. section time. 

What began arsenic a hunt and rescue effort turned to a betterment cognition aft officials said they believed determination were nary survivors. 

Among the victims included respective members of the fig skating community. U.S. Figure Skating released a connection confirming that the victims were returning location from a improvement campy being held aft the U.S. Figure Skating Championships successful Wichita, which concluded connected Sunday. 

"I mislaid everything. I mislaid my husband. I mislaid my students. I mislaid my friends," Gudin told the station.

University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis released a connection Thursday confirming that Kirsanov, a erstwhile fig skating manager with the university, was 1 of the victims successful Wednesday’s crash. 

Photos of victims pursuing the collision betwixt an American Airlines pitchy and a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter. (Getty Images)

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"I americium incredibly saddened to stock the quality that respective members of the fig skating assemblage connected to the University of Delaware were among those who tragically mislaid their lives successful an craft collision past nighttime successful Washington, DC," his connection read. 

"Kirsanov and the skaters trained astatine the University’s High Performance Training Center, which uses UD crystal rink facilities and has been the grooming location for galore years of aggregate world-class skating champions and competitors. The fig skating assemblage is tight-knit, and galore of our students and coaches person trained and competed alongside those who were lost." 

Assanis besides confirmed that Kirsanov was with "two young skaters" connected the flight. He identified them lone arsenic members of the UD Figure Skating Club, but Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., aboriginal identified them arsenic Sean Kay and Angela Yang. 

"I’m devastated to perceive the quality that astatine slightest 3 Delawareans died during past night’s aerial collision. Sasha Kirsanov, Sean Kay, and Angela Yang went to Wichita to prosecute their passionateness for fig skating. It is simply a calamity that nary of them returned location to our state," his station connected X read. 

Part of the wreckage is seen arsenic rescue boats hunt the waters of the Potomac River aft a level connected attack to Reagan National Airport crashed into the stream adjacent Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 30, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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"Delaware is simply a authorities of neighbors, and contiguous we clasp each of our neighbors a small closer. My bosom goes retired to Sasha’s woman Natalia, the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, and each different Delawarean touched by the 3 of them." 

Kirsanov’s daughter, Nicole, besides posted a tribute connected societal media pursuing the nonaccomplishment of her father. 

"I miss you Dad, I would bash thing to bring you backmost and archer you that I loved you 1 much time," she wrote successful a station connected Instagram. 

Kirsanov was an eight-time nationalist manager and a three-time planetary inferior satellite manager with astir a decennary of experience. 

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