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Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton\u00a0held back tears on Friday as he remembered the victims from the figure skating community who died after an American Airlines flight traveling from development camp in Kansas to Washington, D.C., collided with an Army helicopter in midair late Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four-time men\u2019s singles world champion spoke fondly of the victims during an appearance\u00a0on TODAY\u00a0but called the reality of this week\u2019s tragedy \u201coverwhelming.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor this to happen just days after those championships were over is just devastating, shocking \u2013 it just doesn\u2019t make any sense. . . .We\u2019re no stranger to tragedy but this was just beyond devastation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials have said that 14 skaters, coaches, and family members were aboard American Airlines Flight 5342 when it collided with a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, near D.C., at around 9 p.m. local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Many of the victims have been identified, including\u00a0Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov,\u00a0the renowned ice skating coaches who won a world championship title together in 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton became emotional\u00a0when he spoke of the couple, who settled in America to become coaches following their successful career, which culminated in two Olympic appearances. <\/p>\n
Follow the NYP\u2019s coverage of the deadly DC plane collision<\/p>\n
He saw them just days before the crash while attending the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually sat with them for a nice visit in Wichita,\u201d Hamilton recalled Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo think that they\u2019re gone is, um, I can\u2019t wrap my head around the last 36 hours. It\u2019s just been devastating, and the loss is just beyond description. My heart is shattered.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shishkova and Naumov married in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1995, and they moved to Connecticut. <\/p>\n
They had a son, Maxim, who competed in men\u2019s singles in the U.S. He was in Kansas but did not travel back with his parents. <\/p>\n
The Russian pair were coaches for the Skating Club of Boston.<\/p>\n
Sixty passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines plane and three soldiers aboard a training flight on the helicopter are presumed dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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