Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
The D.C. plane crash wasn't the Skating Club’s first airline tragedy. Ten members of the U.S. figure skating team were killed in 1961.
A devastating crash between an American Airlines flight and a Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River resulted in 67 deaths. Amongst the victims were skaters Spencer Lane and Jinna Han from the Skating Club of Boston,
Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.
The Skating Club of Boston confirmed that two skaters, two staff members and two parents died in the plane crash near Washington, D.C.
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.
Watch video of the 1994 performance of the married Boston area figure skate coaches who died in the Washington, D.C. plane crash on Wednesday night.
American former ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is speaking to the media after a deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. left no survivors, including skaters from the Skating Club of Boston.
"We are not forced to participate in their actions just as they are not asked to carry out filling potholes and other things like that."
Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S.
World champion figure skaters, a pilot planning his wedding and teenaged skaters seen as the "future of the sport" were among the 67 victims of the deadly midair collision between a commercial jet and a U.