U.S. Figure Skating told NBC News early Thursday morning several athletes, coaches, and family members were on an American Eagle jet that crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday night.

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

Family and friends remember victims of the collision between American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

Top figure skaters from the United States and Russia were on board the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., after colliding with a military helicopter.

Multiple skaters who died on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. have been identified.

At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.

Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the flight from Wichita, which hosted last week’s U.S.championships.

The U.S. skating community was in mourning on Thursday after learning several skaters were on an American Airlines regional passenger plane that crashed near Reagan Washington National Airport.

An American Airlines regional jet carrying 60 passengers, including U.S. and Russian figure skaters, collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport Jan. 29.

Russian world pairs figure skating champions and married couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the passengers, according to Russian state news agencies.

Not a single person survived the late-night collision between an an Army helicopter and American Airlines jet, packed at the time with figure skaters returning home from an event with their coaches and loved ones,