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00:00It is the worst aviation disaster in the United States in a generation.
00:05All 67 people aboard an army helicopter and an American Airlines flight
00:09were killed in a mid-air collision.
00:12Among those who died were two teenage figure skaters from the skating club of Boston.
00:17Gina Han was just 13 years old and Spencer Lane was 16.
00:21He posted a photo just before the crash.
00:24They were with their mothers and seated with club coaches,
00:28two former world champions.
00:32This will have long-reaching impacts for our skating community.
00:37The two coaches, Jenya Shishkova and Vadim Nomov, top coaches,
00:43they were the 1994 world pair champions and they came to us in 2017
00:49and were very much a part of our building the competitive skating program
00:54here at the skating club of Boston.
00:55Fourteen members of the U.S. skating community lost their lives.
00:59Among those expressing their condolences for all the victims of the crash
01:03was Sebastian Coe, a member of the International Olympic Committee.
01:07I know the grievous loss of life across a range,
01:13but I'm also acutely conscious there were Olympians
01:16and the families of Olympians on that desperate flight.
01:21So on behalf of the whole of World Athletics,
01:23I know I am able to say that our thoughts and prayers
01:28are with all those families and friends that have suffered such a grievous loss.
01:34The members of the U.S. skating community who died
01:36had been attending a training camp in Wichita in Kansas
01:39following last week's national championships.
01:42Civic and religious leaders joined residents in Wichita
01:45in a community prayer vigil on Thursday afternoon.