At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.

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 ...

Sarah Hughes explains how the plane crash near Washington DC has impacted the tight-knit figure skating community.

The figure skating community in the United States is ... which was en route to the world championships in Prague. She was 12 years old at the time. "Our community's been through this before ...

Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the flight from Wichita, which hosted last week’s U.S.championships.

On Feb. 15, 1961, a commercial flight carrying all 18 members of the U.S. Figure Skating team to the world championships in ...

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday ...

1961 that killed all 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, plus 16 coaches, officials, judges and family members. Fleming's coach, Billy Kipp, was among those on board the flight, which was en ...