Figure-Skating Sisters Everly and Alydia Livingston, Ages 14 and 11, Among the Victims of American Airlines Plane Crash

Mar. 15, 2025

Alydia and Everly Livingston.Photo:Everly & Alydia Livingston/Instagram

Everly & Alydia Livingston/Instagram

A pair of sisters ages 14 and 11 are among the victims who died on theAmerican Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopterin Washington, D.C.

Everly and Alydia Livingston are among the multiple skaters who were on board the American Airlines flight, the Skating Club of Boston confirmed. The skating websiteGolden Skatewas the first to report the news.

According toa recent social media postcelebrating the pair’s skating success, Everly was 14 and Alydia was 11.

In theirfinal Instagram postshared five days prior to the crash, the two could be seen at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held in Wichita, Kansas.

“If you look closely at Alydia’s badge… We were born ready for this but is@usfigureskatingready for this much Livingston at Nationals?” reads the caption of the photo, which shows the sisters standing next to one another in front of the rink.

“Congratulations on Everly and Franco for making it to the national development camp for their second year! So proud of all their hard work and training they have done to get here. What an amazing way to start off the year!” the coach, Inna Volyanskaya, wrote in the caption.

Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.Andrew Harnik/Getty

Andrew Harnik/Getty

Volyanskaya 59, a former pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union, was also on the plane, according toReuters, citing Russian news agency TASS. According to the Washington Figure Skating Club’swebsite, Volyanskaya was a coach for the team.

Fourteen U.S. figure skaters were onboardAmerican Airlines flight 5342, which crashed into the military aircraftover the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after departing from Wichita, Kan. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at around 9 p.m. local time.

The plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, according to the airline. Officials said Thursday, Jan. 30, they believe there are no survivors. At press time, 28 bodies had been recovered.

The U.S. Figure Skating team confirmed to PEOPLE on Thursday that several members of its governing bodywere onboard the aircraftat the time of the crash.

Victims include at least six from The Skating Club of Boston, who have been identified as two teens, Spencer Lane and Jinna Han, their mothers, Molly Lane and Jin Han, and two coaches, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, former Russian world champions.

Other victims of the crash were members of the Washington Figure Skating Club and the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, as well as the Skating Club of Northern Virginia.

In astatement, U.S. Figure Skating said that many of the victims were “athletes, coaches, and family members returning home from the National Development Camp held in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.”

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Pairs figure skating world champions Evgenia Shishkova, 52, and Vadim Naumov, 55, who won the title in 1994, were also among those onboard the plane, Reuters andThe Guardianreported, citing Russian news agencies TASS and RIA.

The couple, who were married, were thought to have lived in the U.S. since at least 1998 after retiring from their competitive careers,Reutersreported. They helped to train young ice skaters.

source: people.com