The Olympic artificial skating legend Nancy Kerrigan, the United States, broke down in tears while on Thursday they spoke with reporters outside the Boston Skating Club who lost six members of the group in the DC plane crash.
Kerrigan, 55, said she had viewed the news all night after she heard about the tragic events that happened on Wednesday evening.
'We have previously experienced tragedies as Americans, as people, and we are strong. I think it's how we react to it and my answer is to be with people I care about, “she said. 'We wanted to be here and be part of our community.
'I needed support, so that's why I'm here. It's a shock. I watched all night (on television) and if you find out that you know some people on the plane, it is an even bigger blow.
“We just wish them the best, the families, the courage and the power to take the next steps.”
Kerrigan is known all over the world to be involved in one of the greatest scandals in sport, while she was attacked in 1994 and hit the knee with a stick and could not compete in the American figure skating championships.
Nancy Kerrigan broke down in tears while she spoke outside the Boston Skating Club who lost six members of his group in the DC plane algeluk
Kerrigan fought back tears during her speech and said she had viewed the news all night
Kerrigan and Olympic silver medal winner, stands next to colleague Olympian Tenley Albright
It later emerged that the attack was planned by the then husband of fellow American figure skater Tonya Harding, Jeff Gillooly, aimed at stopping her participation in the Winter Olympics that year.
Gillooly hired attacker Shane Stant and his uncle to carry out the attack in Detroit, Michigan. Hardening itself has always denied every knowledge about the plans.
The collision in DC took place on Wednesday when the flight of the American Airlines with 64 people his final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport shortly before 9 p.m.
A black hawk helicopter cut through the airspace from the opposite direction under cover of darkness, with both aircraft apparently not aware of the presence of the other.
They beat each other at only 400 ft above the ground and burst into a violent explosion before she dived down in the Vriezame Potomac River.
Everyone aboard the Jet with 60 passengers and four crew members of Wichita Airport in Kansas who collided with an army helicopter is feared.
Doug Zeghibe, the head of the Boston skating club in Norwood, Massachusetts, announced the names of the six people who were associated with his club that were on board.
They are: Jinna Han, Jin Han, Spencer Lane, Christine Lane, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova.
In 1994, Kerrigan (right) was attacked in Detroit and could not compete in the upcoming American figure skating championships – it later appeared that the attacker was hired by the then Husband of Rival Tonya Harding (left). Harding has always denied knowledge of the plans
Spencer Lane, 16, also shared this photo from the Doomed American Airlines plane
It comes after Spencer Lane shared a photo from the doomed plane shortly before it crashed.
The 16-year-old uploaded the photo around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, which seemed to show the ralis taxiing on the runway on Wichita Airport before he left for the last flight.
He subtited the ICT -> DCA – the codes for Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Other elite members of the American figure skating team who were expected at the next Olympic Winter Games were also on board the plane, a Bombardier CRJ700.
They returned to the DC area after attending a national development camp for young skaters in Wichita, Kansas.
Figure skater, Spencer Lane, 16, (middle back) In addition to the Russian pair of evgenia shishkova, (middle front) 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, (right) are confirmed as passengers
The son of Russian figure skaters Skhiskhkova and Naumov, Maxim, was in the Wichita camp, although it is unclear whether he was also on the fateful flight.
In a statement, Zeghibe said: 'Our sport and this club have suffered a terrible loss with this tragedy.
'Skating is a close community where parents and children come together 6 or 7 days a week to train together and work together. Everyone is as a family.
'From the skaters, coaches and parents on the plane, we believe that six came from the Boston skating club. We have been destroyed and completely not words.
'These athletes, coaches and parents came back from the national development camp of our figure skating, after last week's American championships in Wichita.
'This camp is for young competitive skaters of tomorrow with the most promise to be a champion of tomorrow. The club sent 18 athletes to participate in the American championships. It sent 12 athletes to the National Development Camp. '
