News of the plane crash that claimed the lives of 67 people Wednesday night near Washington, D.C. hit close to home for Nancy Kerrigan. Kerrigan, the former U.S. figure skating champion, is an alumna of the Skating Club of Boston.

Tara Lipinski, Nancy Kerrigan and more figure skaters are sharing statements of shock and grief after the American Airlines flight crashed Wednesday evening.

In all, 14 of the victims were coming back from a national development camp for promising young skaters following the U.S. Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

Nancy Kerrigan at a press conference at The Skating Club of Boston Olympian Nancy Kerrigan is mourning those killed on American Airlines Flight 5342, especially the athletes that represented her home club: The Skating Club of Boston.

Nancy Kerrigan was one of several U.S. Olympic skating legends who gathered at the Skating Club of Boston Thursday to grieve its six members who died in the Washington, D.C., air disaster.

Local figure skating legend Nancy Kerrigan cried on Thursday when speaking about two promising young skaters who died along with their mothers and coaches in a plane crash in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Olympic figure skating icon Nancy Kerrigan spoke through tears as she remembered members of the skating community who are believed to be dead after the devastating crash of a military helicopter and American Airlines f light 5342.

Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe said Thursday that skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane and their mothers were among those killed, along with 1994 pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of Russia.

Not sure how to process it,” figure skating Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan said through tears Thursday morning at the Norwood facility. “Which is why I’m here.”

Nancy Kerrigan and Dr. Tenley Albright are both at the Skating Club of Boston, mourning the loss of members who were part of the same organization as the figure-skating legends. Kerrigan, a two-time Olympic medalist,

The ice skating legend spoke out after members of the Skating Club of Boston were among those in the plane crash in D.C.