Shishkova and Naumov, who are listed as coaches at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, competed twice in the Olympics.

The figure skating community has reacted with sorrow over the news that several members of U.S. figure skating were on board the passenger plane that crashed Wednesday night. The American Airlines passenger jet collided with an Army helicopter as it approached the runway at Reagan National Airport.

Figure skaters, their coaches and family members had been on a flight to Washington after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

An American Airlines regional jet carrying 60 passengers, including U.S. and Russian figure skaters, collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport Jan. 29.

Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the flight from Wichita, which hosted last week’s U.S.championships.

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter as the plane was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

Several figure skaters, their coaches and family members had been on a flight to Washington after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

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

A husband-wife pair who transitioned from accomplished figure skaters to coaches were reported among the passengers killed in a plane crash near Washington, DC.

After an American Airlines flight carrying 60 passengers collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington D.C., President Trump confirmed that there are no survivors from the tragedy.

All are feared dead in a crash involving a Black Hawk helicopter built by Connecticut's Sikorsky and an American Airlines plane in Washington, D.C.