The skaters were returning from a training camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which took place in Wichita and finished Sunday.

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

The two-time Olympic champion who pushed his sport to new physical heights went on to become its television voice for generations of viewers.

Among those athletes competing in Wichita are former and hopefully future Olympians, many of whom are also defending national champions.

U.S. figure skating legend Dick Button, who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals before becoming the iconic voice of the sport on American television, has died. He was 95.

The passengers on the American Airlines flight included a group of figure skaters, their coaches, and family members. The group was returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita,

At least 14 victims who died on Flight 5342 were members of the U.S. Figure Skating community leaving a camp for rising talent in Wichita, Kansas. Two young skaters from the Charlotte area spent the last week training alongside some of the victims at the facility in Kansas.

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib

The Speed Skating World Cup at Pettit National Ice Center started with a moment of silence. Skaters and observers at the West Allis event on Friday paid their respects to the lives lost in the deadly midair collision near Washington,

As news emerged that the collision between the American Airlines jetliner and the U.S. Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., had claimed the lives of 14 members of the close-knit figure skating community,

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short Wednesday night when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River were just