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An entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961. The plane, Sabena Flight 548, was carrying the team to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
For many in the skating world, Wednesday's crash bears an upsetting resemblance to another fatal accident: the 1961 plane crash that saw the 18-person US figure skating team killed on their way to ...
The 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships had been held in the city from Jan. 20 until Jan. 26, the U.S. Figure Skating website stated. Read the original article on People Show comments
The exact number of victims with figure skating ties is still unknown, but the entire sport was already grieving a loss that had echoes to the 1961 plane crash that killed the U.S. figure skating ...
Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir open the European Figure Skating Championships today with a very emotional tribute to the victims of the plane crash in Washington D.C. last night (h/t ...
Sabena Flight 548 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Idlewild Airport in New York City to Brussels Airport in Belgium. On 15 February 1961, the Boeing 707-329 operating the flight crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground.
Fourteen U.S. figure skaters were on board the American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter on Wednesday, Jan. 29, according to Doug Zeghibe, CEO of The Skating Club of ...
United States Figure Skating was once a world power — from the 1952 Olympics in Oslo through 2006 in Turin, the Americans won 19 of a possible 45 medals, including seven golds, in women’s ...