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What Happened to the 1961 Flight That Killed A Figure Skating Team?
Wednesday's D.C. plane crash took the lives of several young figure skaters, a tragic echo of a crash that occurred in 1961.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...