A pair of young figure skaters, their mothers, and two Russian coaches were among the 60 passengers on board the jet.

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

Former University of Delaware Figure Skating Club coach Sasha Kirsanov died in the crash along with two young skaters who trained in Newark.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Sam Lilley, a young fiancé awaiting his fall wedding, was piloting the American Airlines flight that was minutes away from a safe landing when a collision with an Army helicopter plunged both aircrafts and everyone on board into Virginia’s Potomac River.

Those involved with the University of Delaware’s High Performance Figure Skating Center have celebrated many triumphs, including in the U.S. Nationals and Olympics. On Thursday they endured the opposite extreme,

'I cried. It was tough'; A figure skating mother reacts to the death of a friend in the Washington plane crash

The figure skaters who died in Wednesday’s plane crash are mourned not just because they were young and talented but because, to anyone associated with the sport, they are part of the family.

U.S. Figure Skating is confirming several members of its skating community are among the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash. One local figure skater said she knows firsthand just how much these individuals meant to the sport.

Hearts were heavy Thursday night across the figure skating community. Coaches and skaters with the St. Louis Skating Club held a practice at the Brentwood Ice Rink Thursday night, where we learned multiple coaches and skaters competed and interacted with several victims from Wednesday’s deadly plane collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington,