‘Devastating': Healey offers condolences to Boston skating club victims killed in D.C. plane crash
Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday called news of an airplane crash in Washington, D.C. that killed six people with ties to a Massachusetts figure skating club 'devastating.'
'Devastating to hear how this tragic event has touched folks from all over the country, including here in Massachusetts,' Healey said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Thursday morning.
'My heart goes out to the Skating Club of Boston, and the loved ones of the skaters, parents, and coaches lost in last night's crash,' the governor said.
'My thoughts are with survivors, victims and their families,' Healey said in another social media post late Wednesday night, before news broke of the victims' ties to the Bay State. 'Grateful for the quick action of first responders in the wake of this terrible tragedy.'
Two figure skating coaches for the Skating Club of Boston, two teenage figure skaters, and the mothers of the skaters were on the American Airlines plane that was involved in a deadly midair collision with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.
The coaches, identified by the Kremlin as Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, won the pairs title at the 1994 World Championships and competed twice in the Olympics.
The Skating Club of Boston confirmed they were also coaches at the Norwood-based group.
Army helicopter, plane crash: See impact caught on video, hear air traffic control (graphic warning)
Surveillance video captured the crash, and shows the airplane colliding with an Army helicopter and plummeted into the icy Potomac River.
'We are a nation in mourning,' President Donald Trump said in a press conference late Thursday afternoon, before holding a moment of silence for the crash victims.
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