
Two members of a figure skating club who were on board the American Airlines flight 5342 that crashed Wednesday in Washington, DC, were of Korean descent, a Korean media outlet reported Friday.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the Skating Club of Boston and the Boston Korean community confirmed that Jinna Han, a 13-year-old skater who was on the plane, was of Korean heritage. Earlier reports by US media indicated that 16-year-old skater Spencer Lane of the same club, who was also on board, was adopted as a child from South Korea.
The mothers of both Lane and Han were on board the plane and are presumed to have died along with four other people with ties to the Skating Club of Boston.
A group of Russian skaters and coaches were also on the flight, including Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple who won gold medals in pair skating at the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships.
Sixty-seven people are believed to have been killed in the plane's midair collision with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter, including all 60 passengers and four flight crew on the commercial airliner and the three US soldiers on the military helicopter.
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that there were no survivors in the accident that occurred over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport, as rescue efforts transitioned to a recovery operation. "This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation's capital and in our nation's history, and a tragedy of terrible proportions," he said in a press conference.