Figure skaters and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. this week will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March. International Skating Union president Jae Youl Kim held back tears on Friday in making the announcement during the European championships in Tallinn.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked Wednesday when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.

D.C., after returning home from a prestigious training camp for young skaters in Wichita, Kansas. Boitano was also in Wichita for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. "Our figure skating community is really connected. We're a small community, but we're ...

Figure skaters and others killed in the midair collision near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March.

International Skating Union President Jae Youl Kim has held back tears while announcing they will honor athletes and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D

WASHINGTON — Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

Sean O’Reilly, general manager of the Wichita Ice Center, said his team got to know numerous athletes who had been in Wichita for a development camp after the U.S. Figure Skating

The flight that took off from Wichita, only to meet disaster in Washington, has reminded some residents of past crashes that broke their city’s heart.

A devastating plane crash this week has drawn Wichita, known as the "air capital of the world" and its aviation roots, into the national spotlight.

If President Donald Trump was trying to comfort Wichitans and others rocked by Flight 5342 D.C. plane disaster, he missed the mark.