Top figure skaters from the United States and Russia were on board the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., after colliding with a military helicopter.

At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.

“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in 1995, moved to the U.S. in 1998 and now coach figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston.

As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.

The European figure skating championships carried on Thursday in Tallin, Estonia, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died in an aircraft collision near Washington, D.C.

Two young sisters, ages 14 and 11, were among the victims who died Wednesday night after a commercial American Airlines plane collided with an army Black Hawk helicopter just outside Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington,

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib

Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

A “radiant” mother, soon-to-be-married pilot and teenage skaters are among those killed in the horror crash between a passenger plane and army helicopter in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. All 64 people aboard the American Airlines jet and three aboard the Army Black Hawk helicopter are believed dead,

The tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C., on January 29, 2025, claimed the lives of 14 members of the U.S. figure skating community, including young athletes, their mothers, and renowned coaches.