Victims of the plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday night were contestants in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held from January 20 to January 26 in Wichita,

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.

Amber Glenn, a 25-year-old from Plano who defended her U.S. figure skating championship last week in Wichita, was also among the community within the sport devastated by the news. “I’m in complete shock. I’m sorry I don’t even know what to say,” Glenn posted to Instagram on Thursday morning.

Six people associated with Zeghibe’s club in Norwood, Massachusetts, were killed in the plane crash: skater Spencer Lane and his mother, Molly, skater Jinna Han and her mother, Jin, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple who were world champion pairs figure skaters from Russia in the 1990s.

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

After the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, some young athletes stayed a couple of additional days for further development.

The figure skating community describes itself as "tight-knit," and members in the Kansas City area are feeling the impacts of the tragedy.

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.

The figure skating coaches from the Skating Club of Boston were on the plane traveling from Wichita to Washington when it collided with a helicopter.

In the aftermath, Pikesville native Ting Cui’s phone was exploding with messages from family and friends.They knew she had competed at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas last week.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed condolences on Jan. 30 to families of Russian citizens aboard the U.S. plane that crashed in Washington.