winning the national championship, Owen was selected to be a member of the U.S. team for the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The team was on Sabena Flight 548, a Boeing 707, which crashed on a clear morning near Brussels, Belgium, killing all on board. Owen was only 20 years old and the World Championships that year were soon cancelled. Owen was interred next to her mother and sister in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. In Winchester, the Vinson-Owen elementary school was named in her family's honor. Results (pairs with Dudley Richards) See also Maribel Vinson Laurence Owen Guy Owen Sabena Flight 548 References External links Remembering Flight 548: Shattered dreams About.com – Maribel Y. Owen – 1961 U.S. Pair Skating Champion American female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics 1961 deaths Olympic figure skaters of the United States Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Belgium 1940 births Figure skaters from Boston Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery American sportspeople of Canadian descent Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1961 20th-century American women