Figure skating star Nancy Kerrigan was overcome with emotion, revealing that she knew at least two skaters on the plane that crashed Wednesday night.

Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.

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.