Haunting Final Photos On board the doomed American Airlines flight to Washington DC showed a few Olympic-Heopful Ice Skating Sisters who posed for photos taken by their proud parents.
Everly Livingston, 14, and her younger sister Alydia, 11, radiated when they returned to the capital after an IJschaats Development Camp in Kansas, in addition to their parents, Donna and Peter.
In new images, days after the American Airlines Jet collided with an American military blackhawk -helicopter when this Wednesday evening landed on Reagan International Airport.
The Van Vier family belonged to 67 victims who died in the tragedy, who saw no survivors.
Donna Livingston reportedly sent the last images of her daughters to fellow American figure-skating team parent Jin AH Longersbeam, who said that the livini were for her as a family.
“They were my little babies,” she said in tears about Everly and Alydia to ABC News and described their parents as “really lively people.”
“They supported the dreams of their girls,” she said. 'We have done everything we can to try to make our children dream, and they did it every moment and every day.
Everly Livingston, 14, and her younger sister Alydia, 11, were seen in spooky latest images on board the doomed American Airlines flight to Washington, DC, smiling for their parents
The parents of the girls Donna and Peter Livingston were described by their grieving friends as 'really lively people'
The four -year -old family was one of the 67 victims who died in the tragic American airlines that crashed about Washington DC on Wednesday evening, who saw no survivors
Longerbeam said she and her family had known the Livingstons, because the girls were 'small back rats', and that they called her son Wolfe Jin a brother.
“Everly and Alydia were two of the smartest people on our ice rink,” said Wolfe. “The community looked up at them.”
“It is sad to see that they have to go out like this, because I know their futures were so promising,” he added and said they were known as promising ice skater with dreams to represent the US at the highest level.
Jin AH added that the family did not often rode completely before the girls' skating travel, but returned from Kansas on their fateful last trip.
Wolfe revealed heartbreaking that he was at home in Virginia when he heard news about the crash and with his mother to the crash site in the Potomac River rode in the hope that his friends could have been saved.
He said he had brought warm coats for the girls because he thought they would be cold if they were saved alive.
“He just kept saying:” They get cold … (we have to make sure they are warm, “said Jin Ah.
Everly and Alydia were known as promising iced katers in the hope of representing the US at the Olympic Games, as a friend described them as 'two of the brightest people on our ice rink'
The family was on their way back from an ICE-Kating Development Camp in Kansas to their house in Virginia when the tragedy unfolded
Shown: seeing parts of the wreck sitting in the Potomac River after flight 5342 collided on Wednesday evening with an army Black Hawk -Helikopter, killing 67 people were killed
It is because control has now fallen over how the shocking aircraft crash unfolded about one of the busiest air spaces in America, where a number of officials describe it as 'prevent'.
One of the errors included that an air traffic controller was said to leave his mail early just before the flight 5342 of American Airlines clashed in the air with a military helicopter.
After the employee had left, one air traffic controller remained to process both helicopter traffic and to manage aircraft – which should have been a divided duty – according to the New York Times.
According to the report, these tasks are usually treated between two people from 10 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. After that, the tasks are usually combined and left to one person because the airport sees less traffic later in the night.
Allegedly, a supervisor has decided to combine those tasks before the planned cut -off time and allowed one air traffic controller to leave the work early.
It has also emerged that the army helicopter, who was wearing three soldiers, who was involved in the collision, perhaps also deviated from his approved flight route.
The outlet again spoke with insiders who said that the Sikorsky H-60 ​​Black Hawk helicopter was not on his approved route and flew higher than it should have been.
Reagan National has been understaffed for many years, with only 19 fully certified controllers from September 2023 – well below the goal of 30 – according to the most recent air traffic controller that has been submitted to the congress.
The two planes had collided in a huge fireball that was visible on dashcams of cars that ran on highways near the airport before it dived into the river
NTSB researchers can be seen here by the black box of American Airlines Flight 5342
On Thursday morning, officials confirmed that all 67 had died on both the plane and the helicopter, with their rescue mission and then became a recovery operation.
Researchers made a break later that night, after they had pulled 40 bodies to the coast, when they found two black boxes of the flight of the American Airlines.
A flight data recorder and cockpit speech recorder were pulled out of the river by storage teams.
This will be monumental help for the authorities while investigating what exactly happened in the moments that lead to a disaster.
