The victims were returning home from the Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, when their American Airlines flight collided with a helicopter.

Not sure how to process it,” figure skating Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan said through tears Thursday morning at the Norwood facility. “Which is why I’m here.”

Nancy Kerrigan visited the Skating Club of Boston after six of its athletes died in a Wednesday, January 29, plane crash

Tara Lipinski, Nancy Kerrigan and more figure skaters are sharing statements of shock and grief after the American Airlines flight crashed Wednesday evening.

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked Wednesday when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.

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

Local figure skating legend Nancy Kerrigan cried on Thursday when speaking about two promising young skaters who died along with their mothers and coaches in a plane crash in Washington, D.C.

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

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

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.

Victims of Wednesday’s American Airlines plane crash at Reagan National Airport included a group of elite figure skaters, their coaches, and family members.