Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 world figure skating champions in pairs, lost their lives in the crash. They represented Russia but moved to the US, where they launched successful coaching careers. They are survived by their son, Maxim Naumov, who just won fourth place at the US men’s figure skating championships last weekend.

San Jose-native Anthony Ponomarenko had already left the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas, where the ill-fated American Airlines flight had departed from. On Thursday morning, he woke up to a frantic call from his parents.

Officials believe there are no survivors after a plane with 64 people aboard crashed into a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport.

At least 14 victims who died on Flight 5342 were members of the U.S. Figure Skating community leaving a camp for rising talent in Wichita, Kansas. Two young skaters from the Charlotte area spent the last week training alongside some of the victims at the facility in Kansas.

The midair collision and plane crash into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is hitting close to home on ice skating rinks across the country, including the Orlando Ice Den in Maitland. “I think the whole world is sad. It’s a terrible, unimaginable situation,” said BJ Shue-Chapman, the rink’s skating director.

US Figure Skating confirmed several members of the skating community were onboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a Blackhawk military helicopter.

U.S. Figure Skating announced that 'several members of our skating community' were on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River

Everly and Alydia Livingston are among the figure skaters killed when an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter

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

Here are some of the victims of the tragedy identified so far. A little girl who just celebrated her 12th birthday and her mom Just weeks ago, young figure skater Brielle Beyer celebrated her birthday with a sleepover party her mom,

Olympian Scott Hamilton is mourning the deaths of members of the figure skating community, who were on an American Airlines flight that crashed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.