On Wednesday night airplanes, CRASH was dropped outside Washington DC, and the number of figure skaters, coaches, and families that were still known was killed for the skate community. Almost 64 years ago, I recurred the pain of another tragedy.
On February 15, 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a CRASH drop in a Belgian airplane on the way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Among the 72 passengers killed in the crash, there were 16 coaches, staff, judges, and families in addition to 18 skaters. Until now, it is one of the largest tragedy of sports in Japan.
Ron Rudington, Olympic Bronze Medalist in 1960, told the News Journal (Wilminton, Delaware) in 2010. “I grew up with them and traveled around the world with them.”
Rudington was supposed to be one of his flight coaches, but he had to retreat at the last minute.
Both 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines 5342 on Wednesday were trying to land at Washington Reagan National Airport, so the plane collided with a military helicopter, so CRASH was not survived.
The flight began in Wichita, Kansas, a site of the US figure skating championship, which was recently completed.
The US figure skating, a sports national management organization, stated in a statement that athletes, coaches, and families have returned from a national development camp in collaboration with US championships.
“We are devastating the tragedy that cannot be described in this word, and keeps the victim’s family in our hearts,” said a US figure skating.
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