Young family of four among victims wiped out in DC plane crash

A Virginia family of 4 were among the victims of the devastating American Airlines crash connected Wednesday nighttime successful Washington, DC. 

The Livingstons, from Ashburn, were connected their mode location from Wichita, Kansas, aft 11-year-old Alydia and 14-year-old Everly had participated successful the 2025 US Figure Skating Championships. 

The 2 sisters died successful the horrific clang connected Flight 5342 alongside their dad, Peter, and their mom, Donna. 

Family person Kim Urban told CNN that the girls were 'promising young skaters,' and that Donna was progressive successful the girls' lives and Peter was an avid hockey player. 

'The Livingstons were conscionable - they were conscionable a large property family. They were loving, they were thoughtful. Donna and Peter were extraordinarily supportive parents,' Urban said. 

'They were loving parents. They were doing thing for their children. Alydia and Everly were, like, agleam children, precise talented skaters and ace bubbly.' 

Urban said her ain children had skated with the 2 girls and were devastated by the news. 

Everly had large skating dreams. In November 2023, she told Fox News: 'My goals are to really beryllium a portion of Team USA and question astir the world.' 

The girls posted a heartbreaking last connection connected their shared Instagram account portion astatine the Intrust Bank Arena, which hosted the 2025 Championships. 

Posing together, they wrote: 'If you look intimately astatine Alydia's badge… We were calved acceptable for this but is @usfigureskating acceptable for this overmuch Livingston astatine Nationals?' 

Another household friend, Cassandra Atkins, said she had designed respective of the girls skating outfits. 

'Donna was conscionable similar the astir cleanable mom,' Atkins told WFLA. 'She truly was... [T]hose girls were everything to her, the halfway of her full universe.' 

Atkins said the girls wanted to basal retired connected the crystal and chose brighter colors than typically picked by different girls their age. 

'They conscionable loved skating truthful much. When they weren't skating, they were roller skating, oregon they had wheels connected their boots. They were ever capable to fig retired a way.' 

Donna and Peter showcased their daughter's successes astatine the Championships, sharing plentifulness of photos of the girls connected and disconnected the ice. 

Alydia was acceptable to commencement with a caller spouse successful pairs skating, Donna wrote successful her past Facebook post: 'A spot of breathtaking quality to share! A caller beingness alteration for Alydia has taken place. New year, caller partner, caller journey. 

'She is ace excited to beryllium competing this play with Matt. Still a question distant for us, but we couldn't inquire for a nicer household and amended accidental for her. Introducing Team Alydia & Matt!' 

The household went distant for a household abrogation to Disney World and Universal Studios successful precocious December soon earlier heading disconnected to the Championships successful Kansas. 

The Livingstons were among the 67 radical killed successful the collision betwixt the American Airlines formation and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter. 

At slightest 28 bodies, including 3 soldiers who were connected the helicopter, person been pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River arsenic betterment operations continued Friday morning. 

Of the 60 passengers aboard the flight, 14 were fig skaters, including six members of the Skating Club of Boston, alongside parents and coaches. 

NBC broadcasters and erstwhile fig skaters Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were some broadcasting the 2025 European Figure Skating Championships successful Tallinn, Estonia connected Thursday erstwhile they addressed the incident. 

A choked-up Weir began the broadcast: 'As we travel connected aerial for the European Figure Skating Championships, we are each hurting today. We were perfectly heartbroken by the quality that respective members of our skating assemblage were among those mislaid successful the tragic level clang successful Washington, DC past night.'

Weir past proceeded to work statements from US Figure Skating, the International Skating Union, and a connection from International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.

Lipinski past spoke done sobs, calling the concern 'unimaginable.' 

'My bosom is wholly breached for our skating community, their families and loved ones. My bosom is with each the families affected and that's the portion I person nary words for.

'It volition not bash it justice,' she said, adding that the 'skating assemblage volition ne'er beryllium the same,' but the victims volition ever beryllium remembered.

Weir added that they were determined 'to marque definite that everyone's tone lives on' and that it was 'a tremendous nonaccomplishment that our assemblage feels.'

'Today, my full bosom is with everybody affected by this unspeakable tragedy,' helium said. 'We are truthful devastated for your loss.'

At the event, a agelong infinitesimal of soundlessness was held successful representation of those who mislaid their lives.