How did you tell your 12 -year -old son that his mother and brother often died in an accident?

That is a question that has to face Douglas Lane on the evening of January 29, because his mobile phone is full of notifications about The American Eglel Aircraft and Army Helicopter Above the Poto Mac River, the plane that he knew his wife, Christine Lane and the son Spencer Lane is on the boat.

“I watched Milo, I didn’t know what to say him,” Len lived in the road Island. NBC News in the first interview since my tragedy. “In my intestine, I know what the result is. But I don’t want to say that they leave until I know they leave. “

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“I have to speak very carefully so that he will still have some hope. But I don’t want to create a mistake, “Len said.

Milo “Take it quite well,” he said, “He is quite flexible”.

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Photos of Spencer Lane show at Boston’s skate club.NBC News

The final confirmation that the mother and son died with 62 others on the plane and three soldiers on the helicopter Black Hawk the next day when his lane and his sister took the train to Washington DC.

“That’s difficult,” Len said about leaving Milo with his relatives. “The decision to leave him the next day is the hardest life in my life.”

The 16 -year -old Sketch Sketchers, as well as many other passengers on the American Eagle Flight 5342 flight, flying home from the training camp after the skating scheme in 2025 in Wichita Kansas, where the flight originated.

His mother, who was 49 years old, took care of him on a journey. They should be on the plane connected to the Provence Rod Island after landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

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Spencer is One of the six members of THe skate club of Boston.One of the top sketches of the country on the plane

Before leaving Wichita Spencer Post pictures On the story of his Instagram from his seat above the wing of the plane while it was the asphalt.

Len said that he and Spencer exchanged many times, while his son was in Wichita, but “He was busy doing his things.” He said that he was talking to his wife shortly before she was on the plane about what he likes to fly into this airport, especially “Nuea Poto Mac” and “You will see Pen Tak and all that”.

Crane eliminates the wreck of the Poto Mac River on February 3, 2025.
Crane eliminates the remains of the plane from the Poto Mac on February 3.Roberto Schmidt / AFP – Getty Images

“But I still follow the flight because that’s what I am,” Len said.

Several hours later, Len said that his flight followers, “shows that they land.”

“But they didn’t respond to my message,” he said. “I know that Spencer will turn on his phone, even if he is sitting on an asphalt somewhere … so the fact that they are not in communication makes me strange.”

At that time, Lane said that he saw his first news alert by his telephone. “A small plane collided in Potos Mac.”

“My heart truly smashed my chest,” Len said.

One month later, Lane said that both him and Milo are adapting to their new reality. He said that the commemorative wife and the eldest son helped him to cope with the loss. He said that Milo returned to school and was convenient in familiar activities.

“Raising Milo, knowing when to give his area challenge,” he said. “No blueprints for the situation I found myself.”

Len said that he met Christine in 1999 and they were married three years later. Quilter, who graduated from the University of SyraQs in 1997, and previously working as a graphics designer. Christine Lane likes bright colors (especially orange), but above all, Lane says she likes her son.

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Coins and photos posted on the wall at Boston’s skate club.NBC News

They used Spencer in South Korea in 2009. Lane said and Spencer, which at that time aged 9 months were full of special abilities and he said.

“We will enter the restaurant and all eyes will be with him immediately,” Len said laughing softly at memory.

Spencer is also a natural athlete who fell in love with the Saket Sketch before the Winter Olympics in 2022.

“It’s quite rare for the people who will start that line and as good as he is,” Len said.

In particular, Spencer, a photo of an American sketch, such as Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou, as well as Maxinnaov, which Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova are coaches at Boston’s skate and died in a plane crash.

LANE said that playing scale Talingla became a fascinity in the whole family and they took a lot of time to drive a Spencer and return from the practice in Norwood, Massachusetts.

But the memory lane says that he is most cherished is to return to Seoul for a few years after Spencer joined the family to adopt Milo. He said that it was a Church and felt strange to celebrate “abroad”.

He said, “I’m excited to be in Seoul. He must meet his brother. “

Their family lane said “complete”.