Former Olympian Charlie White is among those trying to help young skaters through the loss of more than a dozen members of the U.S. figure-skating community.

They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.

Six people associated with Zeghibe’s club in Norwood, Massachusetts, were killed in the plane crash: skater Spencer Lane and his mother, Christine, skater Jinna Han and her mother, Jin, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple who were world champion pairs figure skaters from Russia in the 1990s.

The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast.

A figure skating coach with ties to the Harford County area was among the 64 passengers onboard a plane that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington D.

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.

John Donnelly, the chief of Washington's fire department, said at a news conference Thursday that 28 bodies have been found and efforts had shifted from "a search-and-rescue operation to a recovery operation.

Former University of Delaware Figure Skating Club coach Sasha Kirsanov died in the crash along with two young skaters who trained in Newark.

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