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Tragedy Strikes the Figure Skating World

On January 29, 2025, a mid-air collision over Washington, D.C. claimed the lives of 67 people when an American Eagle Flight 5342 regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter as the airplane approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The crash was one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the United States in decades, and it had a particularly devastating impact on the figure skating community