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

Two of the victims of a deadly plane crash between an American Airlines commercial airliner and a Blackhawk Army Helicopter had ties to the North Country.Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were two Russian figure skating coaches who were also two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.