For The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six members of its community Wednesday night in the American Airlines plane crash near Washington, D.C., the tragedy is all too familiar. Sixty-four years ago,

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included teen figure skaters returning from the U.S.

Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday called news of an airplane crash in Washington, D.C. that killed six people with ties to a Massachusetts figure skating club “devastating.”

Tributes have been paid to two teenage skaters, their mothers and two coaches, believed to have been killed in the Washington DC plane crash. At least 30 bodies have been recovered after an American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening (29 January).

Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

A Boston-area skating club reportedly lost two skaters, their mothers, and two coaches in the mid-air plane collision in Washington, D.C.

The ice skating community in Greater Boston is waiting to learn if fellow skaters or coaches are among those killed in the mid-air collision of an American Airlines plane.

The two young skaters had been attending U.S. Figure Skating's National Development Camp in Wichita, an elite training camp that followed last week's U.S. national championships for skaters seen as "the future of the sport," Zeghibe said.

The Skating Club of Boston confirmed that two skaters, two staff members and two parents died in the plane crash near Washington, D.C.

Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe said Thursday that skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane were among those killed, along with 1994 pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. In all,

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were aboard the plane, officials said.