Some skaters, their families, and coaches were on American Airlines Flight 5342 that crashed with a military helicopter on Wednesday night.

A crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter also claimed the lives of students, as a group of union steamfitters from the Washington, D.C.,

Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington. They were returning from a training camp in Kansas.