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What Happened to the 1961 Flight That Killed a Figure Skating Team?
At least nine people onboard the American Eagle jet were part of the U.S. figure skating community, including young skaters ...
US figure skating treads an unfortunately familiar ground: Rebuilding after aviation tragedy
There are no words to comfort anybody who’s been affected by a plane crash. In an instant, many lives can be violently cut ...
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Plane crash near DC resurfaces memories of 1961 tragedy that killed US skating team
On Feb. 15, 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium on its way to the that year's world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Among the 72 passengers killed ...
Figure skating community reels from losses of athletes, coaches and family
Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the flight from Wichita, which hosted last week’s ...
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Plane crash kills world champion figure skaters and the ‘future’ of the sport in a tragic case of déjà vu
US Figure Skating has not confirmed the total number ... skating team headed to the world figure skating championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. That disaster killed not just elite ...
ESPN8d
14 linked to figure skating were on crashed airplane in D.C.
In February 1961, the 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague. Also killed were six U.S. coaches and four skating officials ...
Boston skating club trained Olympic champions. It has also shared in the sport's pain
For the next eight decades, the utilitarian barn on the banks of the Charles River was one of the centers of American figure ...