Ilia Malinin flew to D.C. on Monday after the national championships in Wichita and knew that young skaters were on the plane that crashed Wednesday.

U.S. Figure Skating said several skaters, coaches and family members had attended a development camp that followed the championships that wrapped up Sunday in Kansas

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib

The Wichita skating community is reeling after several figure skaters, along with their coaches and parents, were among those killed in a midair collision.

Just days after figure skaters, family and coaches from across the United States came together in Wichita, a tragic plane crash has left the U.S. Figure Skating community reeling.

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.

In 1961, the plane carrying the U.S. team to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia crashed, killing all passengers, including the team members, officials, and family members on board.

U.S. Figure Skating announced that 'several members of our skating community' were on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River

Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington. They were returning from a training camp in Kansas.

The DC plane crash that killed members of the figure skating community near Reagan National Airport hit very close to home for one Arizona coach.