Several figure skaters, their coaches and family members had been on a flight to Washington after the U.S. Figure Skating ...

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...

There are no words to comfort anybody who’s been affected by a plane crash. In an instant, many lives can be violently cut ...

In 1961, the 18-person US figure skating team was killed in a plane crash in Belgium on their way to Prague. As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure ...

Several coaches and skaters with the United States figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., ...

Some members of the U.S. Figure skating community were reportedly on board a passenger jet that crashed into an Army helicopter.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 15, 1961, a commercial flight carrying ...

Some skaters, their families, and coaches were on American Airlines Flight 5342 that crashed with a military helicopter on Wednesday night.

Two teenage figure skaters who died in the Washington plane crash that killed 67 people were poignantly remembered this week ...

Six of those killed in a mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., had ties to the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood.

A pair of 16-year-old skaters, their mothers, and two Russian coaches are among the victims of the deadly midair collision in Washington DC, a "horrific tragedy" that has cast a shadow across the ...

He said the group included Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who won the 1994 world championships as pairs figure skaters for Russia before moving to the United States and becoming coaches. Figure ...