American Airlines CRJ-700 collides with helicopter near Reagan National

In other figure skating news, completely lost in this hubbub was the announcement of the death of Dick Button just after the crash. Just a weird, uncanny timing. For decades and decades, he was THE voice and face of men's figure skating. The last time he did an on-air analysis was in 2010.

https://apnews.com/article/dick-button-dead-figure-skating-892b9b339e96411499c8864d8737b219
I completely missed that the Worlds were this week so I missed the ladies short program, but US is are poised to possibly do great things as we are currently 1st and 3rd in the standings. The US hasn't won a ladies Olympic gold since 2002.

In men's US is currently 1st. Probably not going to do much in pairs but ice dancers are reigning world champs so that looks good, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/boston-skating-club-dc-plane-crash-1961.html
It's not an Olympic year so just adding all this here as it all goes together anyway.