Members of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Aston, Pennsylvania's Ice Works Skating Club, as well as a Delaware skating coach, are reportedly among the victims of the crash.

It may be days before all the victims are identified, and perhaps weeks or months before the cause of the collision of an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter is determined, but for now the only certainty for the region’s figure skating community is an enduring sense of “immense grief.

Members of the Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Society were among those who died when American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a military helicopter on Jan. 29, 2025.