Richard Totten Button was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion and five-time consecutive world champion. He was also the only non-European man to have beco
Button as a commentator at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid
On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collid
Dick Button
…Skating Championships, including skaters and coaches from the Skating Club of Boston with which Button had a life-long association, were killed in a mid-air collision over the Potomac River. First skater to land a double Axel…
N709PS, the Bombardier CRJ701ER involved in the collision, pictured in 2022
00-26860, the Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk involved in the collision, pictured in 2018 without the External Stores Support System it had equipped at the time of the accident
FAA chart showing the helicopter routes near Reagan National. Routes 1 and 4 can be seen over the upper and lower Potomac River respectively.
Wreckage of the PSA plane the morning after the crash