The Washington Capitals community and young skaters across the DMV are mourning the victims of the American Airlines plane crash, including those with ties to local ice rinks.

World champion figure skaters, a pilot planning his wedding and teenaged skaters seen as the "future of the sport" were among the 67 victims of the deadly midair collision between a commercial jet and a U.

Ice skating legends Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding have given emotional responses to the devastating deaths of fellow figure skaters in the Washington DC plane crash. On Wednesday (January 29), an American Airlines flight crashed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington,

Mourners left flowers at the Ashburn Ice House in Ashburn, Virginia on Jan. 30, in honor of victims of the passenger jet and helicopter collision, which included members of their ice skating community.

The tragedy that unfolded in the skies above Washington D.C. on Wednesday, January 29, involving an American Airlines jet and a United States Army Black Hawk helicopter claimed the lives of a cohort of competitive figure skaters,