Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The deaths came after the passenger jet was preparing to land shortly before 9 p.m. at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after flying from Wichita,

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were just beginning their journeys to stardom.

Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan says she couldn’t just sit at home after learning that several members of the figure skating community had died in the devastating aircraft collision near Washington,