Following his competitive career , Ludington took up coaching in Norwalk , Connecticut . His first pupils included Patricia and Robert Dineen , who were killed along with the rest of the U.S. team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 on their way to the 1961 World Championships . Ludington was not on the plane because neither he nor the Dineens had the money to fund his travel expenses . It was the only World Championships from 1957 to the end of the century which he did not attend as either a competitor or a coach
Sabena Flight 548
Sabena Flight 548
Ronald Ludington