Peggy Fleming, a 1968 Olympic champion in figure skating, is opening up about the “heartbreaking” similarities between the Washington D.C. plane crash and the 1961 plane crash at the beginning of her career.

It’s a big part of our identity, is we fall down, we get up. We get injured, we get up,” skating icon Scott Hamilton said.

"Legacy on Ice" will benefit first responders and the families of the victims of the Jan. 29 plane crash in Washington, D.C.

The performers at the “Legacy on Ice” benefit included Maxim Naumov, whose parents, figure skating coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were among those killed when a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near the nation’s capital on Jan. 29.

Some of the most legendary names in U.S. figure skating participated in Sunday's "Legacy on Ice" to pay tribute to victims of January plane crash.

Olympic icon Peggy Fleming was visiting a friend in California on the morning of Jan. 30 when her husband Greg Jenkins called from their home in Colorado to tell her about a plane crash in ...

The tribute show "Legacy on Ice" will feature dozens of the most well-known faces in American figure skating, from Peggy Fleming to Nathan Chen.

Peggy Fleming, a former Olympian, tells PEOPLE the January plane crash involving U.S. Figure Skating shares some "heartbreaking" comparisons to the 1961 plane crash that killed 18 members of the ...

U.S. Olympic Figure Skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming attends the New York premiere Of "RISE" at Best Buy Theater on February 17, 2011 in New York City.