A consternating tragedy too soon forgotten. In 1961, Sabena Flight 548 enroute to the World Figure Skating Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia crashed in Berg-Kampenhout, a small farming town north of Brussels. All 72 passengers including the entire US team of 18 and 14 of their friends, family and coaches perished. A young farmer was also killed on the ground.
An entire generation of the US figure skating community died in the crash - a loss keenly felt by all who followed them.
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