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 skate camp in Kansas.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night, the Kremlin and state media said.

U.S. Figure Skating Championships continued on Friday, as the Rhythm Dance and Women's Free Skate events took place in Wichita, Kansas.

The skaters were returning from a training camp that followed national figure skating championships which took place in Wichita, Kan., and finished Sunday.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342 when it