Olympic number skaters to recognize DC aircraft accident sufferers in homage reveal

The program will certainly get on Sunday, March 2, at Resources One Sector in Washington, D.C.

Champ number skaters are integrating for a homage program called “Heritage on Ice” to recognize the sufferers of the American Airlines aircraft accident.

The occasion will certainly get on Sunday, March 2, at 3 p.m. at Resources One Sector in Washington, D.C.

Olympians Tara Lipinski, Kristi Yamaguchi, Scott Hamilton and Johnny Dam are amongst those getting involved. The program will certainly elevate funds to sustain sufferers’ family members, initially -responders and aeronautics experts, united state Number Skating claimed.

Greater than a lots of the sufferers eliminated in the Jan. 29 aircraft accident were young skaters, their moms and dads and trainers returning home from a nationwide number skating advancement camp in Wichita, Kansas.

The aircraft, which left from Wichita, will land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Terminal in Washington, D.C., when it hit a united state Military Black Hawk helicopter, sending out both airplane plunging right into the Potomac River.

Sixty-four individuals got on board the aircraft and 3 soldiers got on the helicopter. No person endured.

” As we start to recover from this disastrous loss, we anticipate recognizing the withstanding memories of these professional athletes, trainers and relative that stood for the most effective of the number skating area,” united state Number Skating interim-CEO Samuel Auxier claimed in a Wednesday declaration introducing the homage program.

” We can think about no far better method of commemorating their heritages than via the sporting activity they enjoyed,” Auxier claimed.

Tickets will certainly take place sale on Monday, Feb. 10, on Ticketmaster.

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