Timing coinkidinks:

1/30/24 (a yr ago today) - Fox wrote up the 30 yr old story of Tonya Harding's camp taking her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, out of the competition with an assault on her landing knee.*

1/29/25 (yesterday) - Tonya Harding (an ice skater whose bodyguards and ex-husband took her main competitor out of competition in 1994 (see "1994," below), announced her arrival on X with an "if anyone remembers me" message.**

1/29/25 - American Eagle flight operated by PSA, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, crashes into a military helicopter, no survivors. Competitive (elite*) ice skaters and some coaches, including a Russian couple, former World Champions, reportedly died in the crash.

1994 - the year Tonya Harding's camp smashed the knee of her chief rival, Nancy Kerrigan, during the U.S. National Championship. With Kerrigan unable to skate, "Tonya Harding finished first at the women’s U.S. national championships in Detroit" in 1994* and a place at the 1994 Olympics.****

=The attack on Nancy Kerrigan occurred onJanuary 6,1994. *

1994 - The year the Russia couple killed on the 1/29/25 PSA Flight into D.C. from Witchita won the ice skating World Championship. **

• https://www.livenowfox.com/news/tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan-1994-attack

** https://x.com/itstonyaharding/status/1884645537955160238

*** https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/OF9gGC/B727-200-PSA ("Opinion L.A. of the Los Angeles Times calledPSA 'practically the unofficial flag carrier airline of California for almost forty years.')

**** https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article299420529 ("Team USA pair skater Luke Wang told McClatchy News thatskaters who qualified for the elite division stayed an extra day,after which Wang saidseveral boarded American Airlines Flight 5342.")

* https://people.com/archive/cover-story-poisoned-ice-vol-41-no-3/

** https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/skater-nancy-kerrigan-attacked

* https://www.livenowfox.com/news/tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan-1994-attack

** https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-dc-plane-crash-victims-figure-skaters-competition-b2688981.html ("Ms. Shishkova and Mr Naumov [who reportedly died in the 2025 crash] won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994 and have reportedly lived in the US since at least 1998, where they trained young ice skaters.")

"Hush" symbolism pic related from https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/russian-world-champions-in-figure-skating-were-also-on-board-the-plane-that-crashed-in-the-usa-459353