Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan says she couldn’t just sit at home after learning that several members of the figure skating community had died in the devastating aircraft collision near Washington, D.C., earlier this week.

Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan spoke after U.S. figure skaters were killed in a plane crash. Some 67 people - including three soldiers and more than a dozen figure skaters - were killed after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington,