Figure skating luminaries reacted Thursday to the deadly plane crash that claimed the lives of several youth figure skaters, their coaches, and their families.

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.

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

“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in 1995, moved to the U.S. in 1998 and now coach figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston.

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating community killed.

The passengers on American Airlines Flight 5342 included some of America’s most promising young skaters and coaches, returning from a national training camp for up-and-coming talents.

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

U.S. Figure Skating confirmed that athletes were onboard the plane that crashed with a helicopter in Washington, D.C.

Alexandr "Sasha" Kirsanov, a figure skating coach from Delaware, and two of his young students were among the victims from Wednesday's deadly plane crash in Washington D.C.

Figure skating coach Natalya Gudin spoke out after her husband and their students died in the American Airlines plane crash in Washington, D.C.

Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century.