Friday, January 31, 2025

The Passengers: What Is Known

 


U.S. Figure Skating said a number of its skaters, their coaches and family members were on board the flight returning home from a training camp in Wichita.

The Skating Club of Boston has confirmed six people associated with it were on the plane—two teenagers, their mothers and a married couple of Russian world champions-turned coaches, former world figure-skating champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.

Russian state news agency TASS said former Soviet competitor Inna Volyanskaya was on the flight. Volyanskaya, Shishkova and Naumov had been working as coaches, the agency reported.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Andrew Eaves, a chief warrant officer in the Army, was killed in the crash.

In a post on X, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sent condolences “to the families and friends of Ryan O’Hara and Sam Lilley.” Lilley was a pilot on the American flight.

Beijing’s embassy in Washington said two Chinese nationals appear to have been on the flight.

Elizabeth Keys and Sarah Lee Best, associates at Wilkinson Stekloff, a high-profile law firm in Washington, D.C., were on the flight, their employer confirmed.

Civil-rights attorney Kiah Duggins was on the American Airlines flight, returning to Washington, D.C., after visiting Wichita, where she had attended high school and Wichita State University.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said on X that Casey Crafton was among those killed in the plane crash. “Salem has lost a dedicated father, husband, and community member,” Lamont said.

A GE Aerospace employee was on the flight, the company said on X.

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