The crashed plane near Washington had Russians on board. The plane crash involving an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter occurred on January 29, Bloomberg reports. In particular, Trump expressed his condolences to all those who lost friends and relatives in the disaster.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were killed.

Several figure skaters, their coaches and family members had been on a flight to Washington after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.