Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included teen figure skaters returning from the U.S.

On Thursday morning, the Skating Club of Boston confirmed that six people associated with it were on the flight. They included Spencer Lane–a 16-year-old skater whose Instagram post that he was embarking on the “ICT→DCA,

The Philadelphia Skating Club and other figure skating clubs nationwide are offering condolences following deadly plane crash in Washington D.C. involving skaters and coaches.

The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six community members in the D.C. plane crash, suffered a similar tragedy in 1961.

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked 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.