Jon Maravilla, the U.S. figure skater who was in Kansas with his teammates, said he was not allowed to board a plane because of his dog, but not the American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S.

The athlete was scheduled to travel from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., to return home from the National Development Camp

The American Airlines plane, en route from Wichita, Kansas, to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, plunged into the river just before 9pm local time with 64 on board.

Six people associated with Zeghibe’s club in Norwood, Massachusetts, were killed in the plane crash: skater Spencer Lane and his mother, Christine, skater Jinna Han and her mother, Jin, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple who were world champion pairs figure skaters from Russia in the 1990s.