It may be days before all the victims are identified, and perhaps weeks or months before the cause of the collision of an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter is determined, but for now the only certainty for the region’s figure skating community is an enduring sense of “immense grief.

As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own. U.S. Figure Skating announced on Thursday morning that "several members of our skating community" were aboard American Airlines Flight 5342 when it collided with a helicopter Wednesday night in Washington D.