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

Olympian Scott Hamilton is mourning the deaths of members of the figure skating community, who were on an American Airlines flight that crashed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.