Ice skater Maxim Naumov is being surrounded by his household pals “24 hours a day” after he tragically misplaced each of his dad and mom within the mid-air collision in Washington, D.C. final week.
Naumov, 23, has been spending time along with his family members after the unimaginable tragedy, which claimed the lives of 67 folks after an American Airways airplane collided with a U.S. Military Black Hawk helicopter.
Naumov’s dad and mom, 1994 World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, have been aboard the doomed plane.
“I know a couple who is with him right now,” Ekaterina “Katia” Gordeeva, a former teammate and shut good friend of Naumov’s dad and mom, advised Folks.
“They weren’t even in Washington yet, but … that morning [of the plane crash], we all connected right away, all the people from Simsbury,” referring to the city during which Naumov lived along with his dad and mom.
The girl presently taking care of the younger skater is “like a godmother to him,” Gordeeva provides.
“She is with him right now there and her husband,” she added.
Shishkova and Naumov, who have been figure-skating coaches on the time of their deaths, competed twice within the Olympics and gained the World Championships in pairs in 1994.
The duo, who have been married, have been in Kansas for a nationwide developmental camp which was at the side of the U.S. Determine Skating Championships, the place Maxim competed and positioned fourth.
The pair have been coaches affiliated with the Skating Membership of Boston.
In line with the Every day Mail, a teammate stated their son left Wichita on Monday final week and that the ultimate phrases Shishkova and Naumov expressed to their son was that they have been “proud” of him.
The Federal Aviation Administration stated the navy helicopter was on a coaching flight when it collided midair with the passenger jet and crashed into the Potomac River earlier than 9 p.m. ET.
There have been 60 passengers and 4 crew members on board American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita to Washington, D.C., American Airways stated.
The navy helicopter was carrying three folks, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated.
There have been no survivors.
The American Airways flight included 14 youth determine skaters — six of which have been members of The Skating Membership of Boston — who traveled to Kansas for the U.S. Determine Skating’s improvement camp.
“Our sport and this Club have suffered a horrible loss with this tragedy,” the Boston Skating Membership stated in a press release following the tragedy.
“Skating is a tight-knit community where parents and kids come together 6 to 7 days a week to train and work together. Everyone is like family. Of the skaters, coaches and parents on the plane, we believe six were from The Skating Club of Boston. We are devastated and completely at a loss for words.”
Different victims from the membership have been recognized as Spencer Lane, his mother Molly Lane, Jinna Han and her mother Jin Han, Everly and Alydia Livingston, and their dad and mom, Peter and Donna Livingston.
