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.

Dozens are presumed dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night over Washington, D.C.

Several members of the figure skating community have spoken out after several athletes and their families were involved in a plane crash

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked 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.

Figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday.

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.

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

Ludmila Velikov trained Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov when they were children and told Reuters the couple was like family to her.