Last week, the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships took place in Boston, marking two months since the fatal crash in D.C. and 64 years since the 1961 tragedy.

The tragedy was compounded by its eerie parallel to 1961, when the entire U.S. Figure Skating Team died in plane crash en route to that year's World Championships in Prague.

Tragically, the same figure skating program had already experienced such loss. In 1961, the 18-member team was heading to the world championships in Prague when their plane crashed in Brussels.

In 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team boarded a flight headed to the World Championships in Prague. Their flight crashed in Brussels and there were no survivors.

It's heartbreaking." The figure skating community in the United States is spread out across nearly 900 member, high school and collegiate clubs, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

An entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961. The plane, Sabena Flight 548, was carrying the team to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.

On Feb. 15, 1961, the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team headed for the 1961 World Championships in Prague died when its plane from New York plunged into a Belgian field while trying to ...

The Skating Club of Boston lists them as coaches. Their son, Maxim Naumov, is a competitive figure skater for the U.S. and was not on board the flight.

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army… ...

All members of the 1961 US figure skating team headed to the world championships in Prague perished when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Belgium. The cause of the disaster was never confirmed.

All members of the 1961 US figure skating team headed to the world championships in Prague perished when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Belgium. The cause of the disaster was never confirmed.