Vitali Kay lost his wife, Julia, and their 11-year-old son Sean in the plane crash near Reagan National Airport Wednesday night.

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.

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Coach Alexandr Kirsanov and skaters Angela Yang and Sean Kay were on the plane, Kirsanov's wife, Natalia Gudin confirmed.

Some passengers of the American Airlines regional jet that collided with a military helicopter and crashed in Washington, D.C., have connections to the Philadelphia region.

Among the dead are two Chinese, two Latin Americans, six members of the Boston skating club and three from Delaware - 48 bodies have been recovered from the river

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Coach Alexandr “Sasha” Kirsanov and figure skaters Angela Yang and Sean Kay were all aboard the passenger plane that collided with an Army helicopter on Jan. 29

The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.

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.