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Figure Skater, 12, Who Died in D.C. Plane Crash Had Already Beaten Cancer


Twelve-year-old figure skater Brielle Beyer, who died alongside her mother Justyna in Wednesday’s D.C. plane crash, was a fighter all her life

Brielle was one of the victims of the Wednesday, January 29, plane crash in Washington D.C. when American Airlines flight 5342 collided with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport. Figure skater Maxim Naumov boarded a flight out of Wichita just days before his parents were killed when their American Airlines plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 29. Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano reflected on the tragic plane crash that killed multiple American figure skaters after spending a special week alongside them in Wichita, Kansas.

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