The figure skating coaches from the Skating Club of Boston were on the plane traveling from Wichita to Washington when it collided with a helicopter.

Doug Zeghibe, CEO of The Skating Club of Boston, mourned the six members of his team who were killed in the Washington, D.C., plane crash Wednesday night. While lamenting the tragedy, he noted it’s also a devastating blow to the figure skating community.

Several coaches and skaters with the United States figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., that crashed Wednesday night, according to U.S. Figure Skating. The flight is not believed to have any survivors.

Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington. They were returning from a training camp in Kansas.

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.

The passengers on American Airlines Flight 5342 included some of America’s most promising young skaters and coaches, returning from a national training camp for up-and-coming talents.

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

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating team 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.

The ice skating community in Greater Boston is waiting to learn if fellow skaters or coaches are among those killed in the mid-air collision of an American Airlines plane.

The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ever Winter Olympic gold medal, winning the 500-meter speed skating event. Finland’s Clas Thunberg won five speed skating medals, including three on Jan. 27.

FOX 13's Evan Axelbank reports on the figure skating community in Tampa Bay mourning the loss of many figure skaters, coaches, and parents of figure skaters who died aboard American Eagle Flight 5342.