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What we know about the six crash victims with ties to Skating Club of Boston

What we know about the six crash victims with ties to Skating Club of Boston

Boston Globe30-01-2025

Spencer Lane was a growing presence in social media on Tik Tok and Instagram where he documented his growth as a competitive ice skater, a sport he started participating in just three years ago, according to his father, Douglas Lane.
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'He just had amazing athletic abilities,' Douglas Lane said of his son. 'You couldn't make him do something, but if he was like, 'Hey, that's interesting to me,' you couldn't stop him. And figure skating is, I think, the best example of that.'
He placed first in November's regional championships in the intermediate men category. Like Jinna Han and the other young skaters chosen to attend the training camp, Lane was considered a potential rising star in the highly competitive sport.
Spencer's interest in skating had been inspired by watching Nathan Chen at the Olympics. He was attending high school on line so he could devote as much time as possible to training at the Norwood rink five days a week, his father said.
Lane was 'in the best way possible ... a crazy kid,' said Zeghibe with a smile. Despite not skating for long, Lane was 'highly talented, like incredibly talented' and 'just rocketing' to the top of the sport.
Lane also posted a video showing Flight 5342 as it departed Wichita's Eisenhower Airport Wednesday.
Christine Lane often shuttled her son from the family's home in Barrington, R.I. to the Norwood ice rink. Christine and her husband, Douglas, had adopted Spencer from South Korea where he was born.
Lane, 49, was the mother of two and had recently obtained a real estate license. She was recently hired as a sales associate for Residential Properties, a Providence-based real estate firm.
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'We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn about the tragic news of the accident involving Christine Lane,' Ian Barnacle, Barrington sales manager, said in a statement to the Globe. 'She quickly became a cherished member of our team.
Douglas Lane described his wife as a 'creative powerhouse,' who studied visual design at Syracuse University. She went on to a career in graphic design for years before chasing other creative pursuits.
'She was an outstanding quilter, and spent a lot of time sewing and quilting, volunteered at the local animal rescue in Rhode Island, working with people to place pets into adoptive homes, and recently, just got her real estate license and joined Residential Properties here in Barrington, as a sales agent, was very excited about that new chapter,' he said.
Early in their relationship they decided they wanted to grow their family through adoption.
'It was, you know, a different journey into motherhood, but one that she really embraced and loved,' Lane said. 'She just gave parenting her all and was really good at it.'
Jinna Han competed in the novice women free skate single category for the club including at the US Figure Skating 2025 Eastern Sectional held in Norwood. She finished second in the short program. She finished
Han was 'just a wonderful kid,' said Zeghibe, recalling her as a 'great athlete, great competitor, loved by all.'
Jin Han, Jinna's mother and strong supporter of other skaters at the club.
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She was 'one of the most wonderful, pleasant, polite, smiling — just fantastic, fantastic member of the club,' Zeghibe recalled. 'Never a discouraging word, always appreciative, always supportive of not just Jinna, her daughter, but every athlete.'
The Han family were residents of Mansfield where Town Manager Kevin J. Dumas expressed sorrow on behalf of residents and town officials.
'This horrific tragedy has hit home just as the terrible loss to our community during the attack on September 11, 2001,' he wrote in a statement.
A neighbor, Debbie Herrera, described the family as friendly, always willing to say 'hi' in the hall or outside in the parking lot.
The Han could often been seen shuffling in and out of the building carrying Jinna's ice skating gear. The family, she said, left her with the impression that 'they were on a mission' to achieve something.
'They were always just a nice family,' she said. 'Why them? Why anybody?'
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were originally from Russia where they represented that country in the 1994 Olympics, the couple were veteran coaches in multiple skating styles.
Their son, Maxim Naumov, was competing at the US Championships in Kansas in the senior men's event. He placed fourth and traveled home Sunday before his parents.
'My heart breaks for my skating family today and my thoughts and prayers go out to all those impacted by this horrible tragedy,'
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John R. Ellement of the Globe Staff contributed to this report.
(Information from Globe reporting was used in this account.)
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