For The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six members of its community Wednesday night in the American Airlines plane crash near Washington, D.C., the tragedy is all too familiar. Sixty-four years ago,

Figure skaters and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. this week will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March. International Skating Union president Jae Youl Kim held back tears on Friday in making the announcement during the European championships in Tallinn.

A figure skating coach with ties to the Harford County area was among the 64 passengers onboard a plane that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington D.

The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating. In good times and in bad.

American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and their