3 Russian nationals among 67 killed in Washington mid-air collision: Report

Three Russian nationals died in the recent plane crash in Washington DC, the Russian Embassy in the US said in a statement, the Russian state media reported on Saturday. "The US Department of State has officially confirmed that our compatriots were among the passengers in the plane crash that occurred on January 29 in the skies above Washington, when a military helicopter collided with a passenger plane: world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of the Russian national team in pairs figure skating and figure skater," the statement cited by the Russian state media read. Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994 and they also competed at two Winter Olympics Sixty-four people, including four crew, aboard a commercial airliner of American Airlines died Wednesday night after it collided with a military Black Hawk helicopter midair near Reagan Washington National Airport. Earlier TASS cited Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying at a news briefing that three people among those killed in the crash held Russian passports, and information regarding another passenger is being verified.