Coach Alexandr Kirsanov and skaters Angela Yang and Sean Kay were on the plane, Kirsanov's wife, Natalia Gudin confirmed.

It may be days before all the victims are identified, and perhaps weeks or months before the cause of the collision of an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter is determined, but for now the only certainty for the region’s figure skating community is an enduring sense of “immense grief.

Members of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Aston, Pennsylvania's Ice Works Skating Club, as well as a Delaware skating coach, are reportedly among the victims of the crash.

Two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches whose son recently finished fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were among those feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided w