"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

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Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov joined the staff at The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2017.

Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.

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.

The reach of U.S. figure skating is far and wide, and includes many clubs in western Washington.Those clubs, their skaters and families, were saddened to hear t

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

Athletes and family members linked to Team USA figure skating were in the American Airlines: American Eagle plane that ended up colliding with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C.

At skating rinks across the Bay Area on Thursday, shock was met with grief as people learned there are no survivors from a mid-air collision between an American Eagle flight landing at Regan National Airport and an Army Blackhawk helicopter.