Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.

Nancy Kerrigan cried throughout her comments about the victims, whom she knew through the Skating Club of Boston.

All 64 people aboard a flight from Wichita, Kansas – 60 passengers and four crew members – and the three soldiers on a U.S. Army helicopter were believed dead after the two aircraft collided in a fiery explosion near Washington,

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,