On board the crashed flight were figure skaters and their families, friends and coaches, U.S. Figure Skating confirmed.

American figure skater Jon Maravilla told Russian media that he was barred from the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter.

A figure skater said to have a ticket on Wednesday’s doomed American Airlines flight was actually bound for another city entirely, he tells the Daily Beast, contrary to a viral report online. Jon Maravilla said his dog’s size was the reason a gate agent denied him boarding for a flight on Delta Air Lines to Atlanta—not to the nation’s capital.