An outpouring of grief and help has been spreading throughout the nation for the 67 individuals killed in Wednesday’s midair collision of American Airways Flight 5342 and a U.S. Military Black Hawk in Washington D.C., as their identities proceed to be revealed by family and friends Friday.
A operating listing of the victims being tracked by Hearst Media and its subsidiaries has recognized greater than half by identify as officers proceed a painstaking seek for lacking our bodies within the Potomac River.
Among the many victims recognized up to now are: Evgenia Shishkova, 52, and Vadim Naumov, 55, who had been coaches with the Skating Membership of Boston.
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The couple, additionally established determine skaters, received the pairs title on the 1994 world championships in Chiba, Japan, and competed twice within the Olympics, KARE11 stories.
Casey Crafton, a father of three and husband to Rachel Crafton, can also be among the many useless, in response to the Bob Jones College Alumni. He graduated from the South Carolina-based Christian establishment in 2008 and studied Aviation Administration.
“Please pray for Rachel, their 3 younger sons and the remainder of the household as they grieve the lack of Casey,” the group stated.
Democrat U.S. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware confirmed in a put up on X that three individuals from his state had been on the flight: Alexandr “Sasha” Kirsanov, Sean Kay and Angela Yang.
Kay and Yang had been youth skaters whereas Kirsanov was a skating coach.
“I am devastated to listen to the information that no less than three Delawareans died throughout final evening’s air collision. Sasha Kirsanov, Sean Kay, and Angela Yang went to Wichita to pursue their ardour for determine skating. It’s a tragedy that none of them returned residence to our state,” Coons wrote. “Delaware is a state of neighbors, and tonight we maintain all of our neighbors just a little nearer. My coronary heart goes out to Sasha’s spouse Natalia, the College of Delaware Determine Skating Membership, and each different Delawarean touched by the three of them.”
Wendy Jo Shaffer, one other sufferer, was a married mom of two from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was described as “a radiant soul” and a “devoted spouse” in a GoFundMe marketing campaign that has raised greater than $264,000 as of Friday afternoon.
“Her love, kindness, and unwavering spirit touched everybody who knew her, and her absence leaves a void that may by no means be stuffed,” pals of her household wrote.
“Wendy was the guts of her household — a loving associate to her husband and a nurturing, joyful mom to her kids. She devoted her life to making a heat, loving residence crammed with laughter and care. Her boys had been her best delight and pleasure, and he or she dreamed of watching them develop into the wonderful people she knew they might turn out to be.”
Washington-based legislation agency Wilkinson Stekloff confirmed in an announcement to Hearst Media that two of their associates, Sarah Lee Greatest, 33, and Elizabeth Anne Keys, 33, are among the many useless from the crash.
“Liz and Sarah had been cherished members of our agency — fantastic attorneys, colleagues, and pals,” the agency stated.
Kiah Duggins, 30, a Harvard-trained civil rights lawyer and former Miss Kansas contestant, can also be among the many useless, KWCH reported.
Duggins, who labored with the Civil Rights Corps, was returning to Washington, the place she works, after visiting her household in Wichita whereas her mom underwent surgical procedure. Duggins was additionally a professor on the Howard College Faculty of Regulation.
“It’s with profound disappointment that the Howard College group and the Howard College Faculty of Regulation have discovered of the passing of Professor Kiah Duggins, who was amongst these misplaced within the mid-air aircraft collision at Reagan Nationwide Airport. We ask for privateness and respect for Professor Duggins’ household, college students, and colleagues throughout this tough time,” Howard College President Ben Vinson III wrote on X.
The late pilot of the American Airways flight was recognized as Capt. Jonathan Campos by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College, the place he graduated in 2015.
“Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College is deeply saddened to study of the passing of Captain Jonathan Campos (Aeronautical Science, ’15). Our ideas are together with his household and the households and family members of all impacted by this tragic accident,” the college stated in an announcement.
Samuel Lilley, 28, was recognized as his co-pilot. Lilley’s father, Tim, instructed NewsNation that his son was a Christian and is assured that his soul was “proper with Jesus.”
On Thursday, at a prayer vigil for the victims in Wichita, Kansas, from the place the American Airways flight originated.
“It wasn’t simply Wichitans, it wasn’t simply Individuals, it was actually worldwide,” Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg of Chabad of Wichita, who recited a standard Hebrew prayer, stated in the course of the vigil, in response to The Sunflower.
“It reveals us how fragile life is and the way essential it’s for us as humanity to come back collectively, not simply in occasions of tragedy.”
Rhonda Kingwood, a pastor at Coronary heart of Christ Methodist Church, who plans to carry one other vigil for the victims on Feb. 13 with the Higher Wichita Ministerial League, known as the crash an “unimaginable” tragedy.
“My ideas and prayers are with all of the households throughout this time of loss, as a result of there are not any phrases, you do not even know join with individuals in issues like this,” she stated. “I believe it is a horrible tragedy, and it is one thing that is unimaginable that you simply simply hear, however you do not assume it’ll occur.”
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