Skaters & coaches killed in Washington, DC airplane crash

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/figure-skating-community-shock-d-141030680.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9370dny5xo

[AlbaNY]

I couldn't sleep well last night and decided to check out the internet in the wee hours my times zone and saw the news then early reports of the skaters. 
Then I really couldn't sleep pondering unpleasant things.

It's so incredibly sad.  It would be about any passengers in such a tragedy, but the connection of skating and knowing circumstances of such promising kids goals, talent and work to get there, there with their families and or coaches... just 

Then getting messages from some of my skating friends and coach that they personally knew some of them or that we both knew people who worked with them etc makes the world even smaller. 

[Bill_S]

It's just so sad. There are no words to express how awful this is.

[LunarSkater]

There are no words. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a loved one.