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.

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,

The Skating Club of Boston lost six skaters when a plane and helicopter collided in Washington. Figure skaters, Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, their mothers, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov,

A Boston-area skating club reportedly lost two skaters, their mothers, and two coaches in the mid-air plane collision in 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.

"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."

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.

The Washington Wizards held a moment of silence before their game against the Los Angeles Lakers Thursday night to honor the victims in Wednesday's midair collision.

There were 64 people on American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas to DCA — including 60 passengers and four crew members. The Blackhawk Army helicopter had three soldiers on board. None of the 67 people on either aircraft are believed to have survived, officials say.