The country’s figure skating community mourned Thursday in the wake of news that young athletes, coaches and family members made up as much as a third of the 60 passengers on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday night.

The U.S. skating community was in mourning on Thursday after learning some of the country's most promising young figure skaters, as well as parents and coaches, were aboard an American Airlines regional passenger plane that crashed near Reagan Washington National Airport.