Several teenage figure skaters, as well as some of their mothers and coaches, are presumed dead after American Eagle Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, collided midair with a Black Hawk Army helicopter the evening of Jan. 29 above the Potomac River.

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.

Scott Hamilton was brought to tears on the Friday, Jan. 31 episode of the Today show as he reflected on the loss the U.S. figure skating community is feeling after the tragic D.C. plane crash that claimed the lives of 14 skaters and coaches.

Former Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton made an emotional appearance on TODAY Friday morning, as he remembered the figure skaters lost in the deadly Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport crash between an American Airlines plane and a U.