In the late evening hours on Wednesday, American Airlines Flight 5342, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, carrying three soldiers, near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

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.

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – A pair of athletes with ties to Minot who competed at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, over the weekend, were not on board the plane that crashed in Washington, DC Wednesday, and are safe at home in Colorado Springs.

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.

U.S. Figure Skating announced that 'several members of our skating community' were on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River

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

Valley Figure Skating Club in Appleton was at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships: the event several people aboard flight 5342 were returning from when the crash happened.

Tara Lipinski and Tonya Harding were among those in mourning after learning figure skaters were in Wednesday's plane crash near Washington D.C.