Ice skater Maxim Naumov is being surrounded by his family friends “24 hours a day” after he tragically lost both of his parents in the mid-air collision in Washington, D.C. last week.
Naumov, 23, has been spending time with his loved ones after the unimaginable tragedy, which claimed the lives of 67 people after an American Airlines plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
Naumov’s parents, 1994 World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were aboard the doomed aircraft.
“I know a couple who is with him right now,” Ekaterina “Katia” Gordeeva, a former teammate and close friend of Naumov’s parents, told People.
“They weren’t even in Washington yet, but … that morning [of the plane crash], we all connected right away, all the people from Simsbury,” referring to the town in which Naumov lived with his parents.
The woman currently looking after the young skater is “like a godmother to him,” Gordeeva adds.
“She is with him right now there and her husband,” she added.
Shishkova and Naumov, who were figure-skating coaches at the time of their deaths, competed…
