The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.
Russian world champion figure skaters, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were on the American Airlines flight when it fatally crashed with a helicopter
The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked Wednesday when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.