{"id":43435,"date":"2025-02-01T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=43435"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:57:29","slug":"hearts-are-heavy-14-figure-skaters-among-victims-of-dc-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=43435","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hearts are hea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.png 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a refined 180-word version of your article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourteen figure skaters are among the victims of the first major commercial plane crash in the United States since 2009, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doug Zeghibe, CEO of the Skating Club of Boston, confirmed that six victims\u2014two coaches, two teenage athletes, and two mothers\u2014were from the Boston club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur sport and this club have suffered a horrible loss with this tragedy,\u201d Zeghibe said. \u201cSkating is a tight-knit community. Everyone is like family. We are devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure skaters and coaches were returning from the U.S. national championships in Wichita, Kansas, when their American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening. No survivors were expected, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wichita Mayor Lily Wu became emotional as she offered condolences, saying, \u201cOur hearts are heavy as a city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalya Gudin, wife of coach Alexandr Kirsanov, said she has \u201clost everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Figure Skating confirmed several members were on the flight. \u201cThese athletes, coaches, and family members were returning home from the National Development Camp,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=43385\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a refined 180-word version of your article: Fourteen figure skaters are among the victims of the first major commercial plane crash in the United States since&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52273,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43435\/revisions\/52273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}