(CBS) -- The plane that crashed into the Potomac River ... The first thing Chicago area figure skaters said Thursday was that they were in shock. The athletes are all in group chats and follow ...

Members of the Bay Area figure skating community are now in mourning. "I woke up to, you know, being told that my two friends, Evgenia and Vadim, were on the plane," said Olympian Brian Boitano.

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically ... “There were so many young, up-and-coming, bright stars that were on that plane, and amazing coaches that were coaching bright ...

The Bay Area figure skating community is mourning the ... After colliding, the helicopter and passenger plane crashed into the Potomac River. "We have so many friends on the East Coast and the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh's figure skating community has been hit hard by the midair DC plane crash which killed a number of up-and-coming ice skaters from across the country. That includes ...

As news reports spread Thursday morning, the area's figure skating community was in ... in 1961, when a plane flying from New York to Brussels crashed on approach, killing 72 people on board ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago-area figure skaters came together Friday in the north suburbs to honor the victims of the deadly plane crash near Washington, D.C. and raise money for their families.

SEATTLE — The reach of U.S. figure skating is far and wide ... hours after learning that over a dozen fellow skaters had died in a plane crash, their hearts were heavy for those souls and ...

Wichita hosted the U.S. Figure Skating Championships over the weekend. (William Purnell/Reuters) U.S. figure skaters, their coaches and family members were on board the flight, the sport's ...

A Chicago area figure skating coach remembers 2 colleagues ... Shishkova and Vadim Naumov — who were killed in the D.C. plane crash. "I don't know what to say," Podvalny said Thursday in Wilmette.