Boston is mourning the loss of six members of its ice skating community in Wednesday's Washington, D.C., plane crash. CBS News Boston reporter Laura Haefeli has more.

The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating – in good times and in bad. For more than a century, the club has launched the careers of Olympic medalists and world and national champions while also serving as a training ground for young skaters just learning the sport.

The D.C. plane crash wasn't the Skating Club’s first airline tragedy. Ten members of the U.S. figure skating team were killed in 1961.

Figure skaters and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. this week will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March. International Skating Union president Jae Youl Kim held back tears on Friday in making the announcement during the European championships in Tallinn.

Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

Jinna Han, 13, and her mother Jin, were among the Boston-based victims killed in Wednesday's horrific plane crash in DC.

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

The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six community members in the D.C. plane crash, suffered a similar tragedy in 1961.

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S.

Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, two skaters training at the Norwood club, and their mothers were killed. Two coaches at the facility were also among the victims.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

A Boston-area skating club reportedly lost two skaters, their mothers, and two coaches in the mid-air plane collision in Washington, D.C.