The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter included figure skaters returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and two of their Russian coaches.