A few minutes before the plane was set to land, air traffic controllers asked the pilots if they could land the jet on a shorter runway at Reagan International. The pilots said they could. Controllers then cleared the plane to land and the plane adjusted its path to the new runway. The collision prompted a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.
All takeoffs and landings from the airport near Washington were halted as helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in search of survivors. Figure Skating said passengers on the jet included a group of figure skaters, their coaches and family members. Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were aboard the plane, according to the Kremlin.
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