The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast.

Several coaches and skaters with the United States figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., that crashed Wednesday night, according to U.S. Figure Skating. The flight is not believed to have any survivors.

Alydia and Everly Livingston, 11 and 14, of Ashburn, Virginia, were thrilled to make it on the National Development Team, whose camp was held in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita.

Just days after figure skaters, family and coaches from across the United States came together in Wichita, a tragic plane crash has left the U.S. Figure Skating community reeling.

Ryan O’Hara, 28, from Lilburn, Georgia, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, from Great Mills, Maryland, died in the crash. Eaves was the instructor pilot on board and had about 1,000 flight hours, according to Army official Jonathan Koziol.

Maxim Naumov flew home after competing in the U.S. Championships just days before his parents Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were killed in plane crash

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov visited Pittsfield with their son, figure skater Maxim Naumov. The family visited as special guests of the Pittsfield Figure Skating Club at its

John Donnelly, the chief of Washington's fire department, said at a news conference Thursday that 28 bodies have been found and efforts had shifted from "a search-and-rescue operation to a recovery operation.