only 16. gina hahnus 13. the two, along with their moms, christine lane and jen hahn, were returning from an elite training camp for top young athletes. gina, seen here competing for u.s. figure skating. >> we watched gina just grow up here from just a tiny little tyke into this amazingly mature 13 year old, a great performer, a great competitor, and off the ice, a great kid. >> with these kids. we they are leagues ahead of us. when we were their age. >> seeing gina and spencer develop so quickly on ice, we just can't see them grow every day. >> their coaches and figure skating world champions jenna shishkova and vadim naumov were also among the victims. >> it's not just losing training mates, it's not just losing >> crash, crash, crash, this is friends. but it truly feels like alert three. crash, crash, you're losing family members crash, this is alert three. because we're not going to be >> fireball in the sky. why did a black hawk helicopter collide able to see them every day anymore. with an american airlines jet? the deadliest crash in nearly 24 >> those touched by this tragedy

now trying to make sense of it years. >> tragically, last night, a all. mistake was made. >> this is our time. god, that >> we're inside the you are calling us. among the investigation. >> what went on in the cockpit other victims, 28 year old first of the black hawk? put them right in the flight path of the officer samuel lilly, who was american jet. >> the black boxes just copiloting that american recovered. as the search for airlines flight. his family answers intensifies. saying he was newly engaged and >> we are going to leave no just months away from being stone unturned. promoted to captain. >> how could this happen in one >> he was so young and he was of the nation's most secure air excited about life and his spaces? what we're learning tonight. plus, remembering the future and getting a dog and a house and kids, and it's just lives lost, the group of talented teens on their way to this is just tragic. >> he was very passionate for skating stardom. >> he's, like, was a force of nature. flying. he loved it. he was >> the young copilot just really good at it. beginning his career. >> the family of ian epstein, >> he was so young and he was one of the flight attendants on excited about life. board, telling abc news. ian epstein was full of life. he >> and olympic superstar nancy loved being a flight attendant, kerrigan supporting the but his true love was his devastated figure skating family. justina bair and her 12 devastated figure skating community. ohhh, it's mesmerizing. year old daughter brielle, another skater, were also i can't look away. killed. her husband andrew, is cleaning that greasy mess... now left with his six year old and not even scrubbing. son. >> my son and i were going to well, fluff my feathers. pick up my wife and daughter, dawn platinum is ba-ringing it. you know it! it cuts through the grease better and when it was time for the

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happens to one of us, it reverberates through everyone. >> spencer, he was he was a little fireball. he was a little firecracker. that's the best way to put it. >> i was impressed by him. >> yeah, he didn't skate long, but the amount of talent that that kid had. unbelievable. >> spencer's last post on his instagram story, showing his view from the plane right before takeoff, spencer had been propelled by the support of russian olympians zhenya and vadim. >> they took kids as they came into the sport, and they were >> thanks for joining us. just hours ago, authorities their focus to build kids from confirming the recovery of the an early age with the proper black box from american airlines discipline and techniques that flight 5342, the doomed jet that would carry them through the sport forever, and they were collided with the black hawk very good at that. helicopter over the potomac. as >> the two had a storied career the nation mourns the loss of the 67 souls on board the two as a world renowned figure skating pair, seen here on espn, aircraft. authorities now performing at the 1996 world focusing on key details of the championships. >> they were like our second investigation. i'm joined now by abc's stephanie ramos in parents, to be honest. the washington. stephanie, what can skating club of boston is a you tell us? family and so everybody has >> juju, a family center has been set up here at reagan their main coaches, and for them national airport. we've seen ntsb investigators going back it's like their kids.

and forth here throughout the >> tomorrow we are planning to have a normal schedule of our day, meeting with families, updating them on their process. practice, and i don't know what officials say they are now scrutinizing over the military it will be like to walk in pilot's actions on that army blackhawk helicopter in this knowing that these people, they won't be there. country's deadliest aviation >> their legacy is going to live on. they're beautiful people. disaster in almost a quarter the best thing we could do to century. a nation desperate for honor them is to be strong and answers after an army black hawk to, you know, carry on. helicopter collided with american airlines flight 5342. the aircraft's exploding in a >> and when we come back, a young skater, remembering his fireball before falling into the talented friends lost on the potomac river below. >> the crash, crash, crash, this talented friends lost on the tragic flight. is alert three. crash, crash, crash, this is alert three. >> all 64 people on the jet and three soldiers in the helicopter were killed. tonight, we're learning more about the victims you don't have to settle. from the plane's crew. first ask your gastroenterologist if switching to rinvoq officer samuel lilly. 14 of the is right for you. it's one of the latest treatments victims were figure skaters, from the makers of humira. their families and coaches rinvoq works differently than humira and may help. flying from the national rinvoq is a once-daily pill championships and the national that can deliver rapid symptom relief, development camp in wichita. lasting steroid-free remission, several part of the skating club

and helps visibly reduce damage of boston. nancy kerrigan, an of the intestinal lining. alumna of the program, in tears. rinvoq can lower ability to fight infections. >> i feel for the athletes, the before treatment, test for tb and do bloodwork. serious infections, blood clots, some fatal; skaters, their families. but ...cancers, including lymphoma and skin; anyone that was on that plane, serious allergic reactions; not just the skaters, because gi tears; death; heart attack; and stroke occurred. it's just such a tragic event. cv event risk increases in age 50 plus >> skater spencer lane, only 16 with a heart disease risk factor. years old, his father speaking tell your doctor if you've had these events, infection, hep b or c, smoked, are pregnant or planning. to wcvb. >> the best way i can describe don't take if allergic or have an infection. him is just he's like was a rapid symptom relief and lasting steroid-free force of nature. he had amazing remission are possible with rinvoq. athletic abilities and just was ask your gastroenterologist someone who you couldn't make to switching to rinvoq is right for you. him do something. but if he was you could pay as little as $0 per month. like, hey, that's interesting to me, you couldn't stop him. whoa! how'd you get your teeth so white? >> wednesday's tragedy, the you gotta use the right toothpaste! first fatal crash of a commercial flight in america in dr. c?! ♪ over 15 years. not all toothpastes whiten the same. >> fatal mishaps in the united crest 3d white removes 100% more stains states are so rare. we're so for a noticeably whiter smile. accustomed to aviation, new personal best. commercial aviation being crest. extraordinarily safe. you could ♪ are you having any fun? ♪ be sitting in your kitchen, and you are more risk of being hurt ♪ what you getting out of living? ♪ than you are sitting on an ♪ who cares for what you've got ♪ airplane anywhere in the united ♪ if you're not having any fun? ♪

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direct knowledge telling abc news that the air traffic controller on duty was >> welcome back. among the performing the job of two controllers. this is usually promising young skaters who died on the american flight was 16 done when there's less air year old spencer lane and his traffic, but last night that change from two controllers to mom, christine. and joining us now from long island is 17 year one was made 40 minutes earlier than usual because of lighter old rowan laycock, a skater himself who refers to spencer as traffic. this also revealed in a his best friend in skating. preliminary faa report about the thanks for joining us so much, crash. according to multiple rowan. >> thank you. >> first of all, we're so sorry news outlets late today, the for your loss. i'm sure this is ntsb responding. still a shock to you. i know you >> we have not reviewed any specific reports about the flew home to long island after controllers at this time, at spending the week in wichita least from the leadership team. with spencer and all your our investigators are continuing friends in skating who died on to pull all that information, that horrible crash. what was your friendship like with their personnel records, their files, where they were at, spencer, and what did skating mean to him? whether they were fatigued. >> the crash, echoing 1982 air >> i became friends with spencer at the beginning of last year, florida flight 90, the jet crashed into the icy potomac and our friendship grew really river within a mile of close. we got to know each other yesterday's crash. really well. i learned that >> good evening. it was an air florida jetliner bound for spencer used to be a really tampa. 68 passengers and five talented and committed skater. crew members on board. he started skating back in 2022 >> you could see the upper horizontal fins above the water and until now, just being able

level, and the people were to get at this high of a level, actually hanging on to the it's astonishing and insane, and skeleton of that fuselage in a he's become an inspiration for semicircle. everyone just to create passion >> donald usher helped rescue and dedication for the sport in four out of the five survivors with a helicopter from these icy general. and he's he was a waters. >> those five being in that really outgoing, a really kind water all at that time, and then and friendly person. being able to manipulate >> and you. >> were. >> saying that he's he's just themselves to hold on to things, and they still held on and five four and had only been skating for three years and that survived. you admired not just his talent, >> 74 people died. and even but his work ethic and his though it happened 43 years ago, determination. >> yeah, he was a really hard the pain is still present in worker. he got from just doing usher's mind. >> it brings me to mind. the single jumps two years ago all the way until triples. now sadness is the families who went almost at quads. and he had a through this in 1982. seeing really great future. it was this happen again and knowing really promising for him. he had that they were now hurting for a lot of potential. it's really the people that were also going heartbreaking just knowing that to have to go through this this was the outcome, because horrible event. >> america once again mourning just a few days ago we were and searching for answers. about to say, like, see you soon at boston and now i'm just here

>> stephanie. thank you. tonight we're learning poignant new details about the dozens whose mourning. >> what was your reaction to the lives were cut short in the news? i know you were quoted as mid-air collision. saying that life is temporary and we have to make the most of every opportunity. what do you think you'll miss most about spencer? >> i'll miss being able to talk small, tight knit skating to someone that was really close community in massachusetts awash to me, that shared a lot of in grief. 14 figure skaters, interests. we've always talked about being committed and coaches and their family members passionate. we've sent were among the victims, six of inspirational posts and lots of them from the skating club of opinions and thoughts for one boston. >> we've had great loss, and another, and i think that was really important. so that's what this is some of our future i'm going to miss most about skaters, and so that's really him. and he was an amazing person. challenging, i think. how do you >> and rowan, how are you and deal with that? how does someone the skating community mourning this week? deal with that? >> two of those skaters were >> none of us believe this is just teenagers. spencer lane was real and it's really devastating. >> well, your pain is understandable, but thank you, rowan so much for joining us. thanks for sharing your memories. and when we come back, olympian nancy kerrigan lending her support to the figure skating community rocked by the

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>> and finally, tonight, an olympic champion standing with those affected by the tragedy. nancy kerrigan today with the members of the skating club of boston gathering to support one another after the tragic loss of several of its ice skaters and coaches. the figure skating hall of famer getting emotional. >> i feel for the athletes, the skaters, their families, but anyone that was on that plane, not just the skaters, because it's just such a tragic event. >> kerrigan on the resilience learned on the ice. >> the main lesson i think

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