Figure skater whose parents died in D.C. plane crash says they changed their flight
Just days after placing fourth at the U.S.
Just days after placing fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship, Maxim Naumov suffered an unimaginable loss.
The skater’s parents, former Olympians Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, died Jan. 29 when a military Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane over Washington, D.C.
Sixty-seven people were killed in the midair collision, 28 of whom were members of the figure skating community. Naumov, 23, told "TODAY" co-anchor Craig Melvin that his parents changed flights before the tragic accident.
“My mom let me know that they’re switching flights and that if I could pick them up,” Naumov said. “My mom always texts me and calls me as soon as they land.”
However, the call never came.
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