Nancy Kerrigan speaks at Skating Club of Boston following deadly plane crash

(NEXSTAR) -- American erstwhile crystal skater Nancy Kerrigan is speaking to the media aft a deadly level clang successful Washington, D.C. near nary survivors, including skaters from the Skating Club of Boston.

Kerrigan, an Olympic medalist, is an alum of the club.

Two teenage fig skaters, their mothers and 2 satellite champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating assemblage killed erstwhile an American Airlines flight collided with an Army chopper Wednesday nighttime and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe said Thursday that skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane were among those killed, on with 1994 pairs satellite champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. In all, 14 of the victims were coming backmost from a nationalist improvement campy for promising young skaters pursuing the U.S. Championships successful Wichita, Kansas, Zeghibe said.

“Skating is simply a precise adjacent and tight-knit community. These kids and their parents, they’re present astatine our installation successful Norwood, six, sometimes 7 days a week. It’s a close, choky bond,” Zeghibe said. “This volition person long-reaching impacts for our skating community.”