Olympian Maxim Naumov's parents were among the members of The Skating Club of Boston who were aboard the fatal plane collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2025. Naumov's parents were figuring skating coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova and they were flying with two athletes from the Boston area and their two mothers back from a development camp in Kansas. The 2025 mid-air crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 and the Army Black Hawk devastated The Skating Club, and, for some, recalled memories of a similar air tragedy the club suffered decades ago - a 1960s plane crash that killed 10 members of Boston's premiere skating club,...
