Organizers of a figure skating event in Washington say they raised $1.2 million for victims of the D.C. plane crash and first responders.

Figure skater Maxim Naumov returned to the ice for a powerful routine in honor of his late parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who died in the Washington, D.C. plane crash in January. Maxim,

At the end of his figure skating performance, when the last note of his parents’ favorite song played in an arena packed with spectators and heavy with sorrow, Maxim Naumov dropped to his knees at the center of the ice. He remained there for what seemed like forever, awash in a spotlight, looking lost and sobbing.

A star-studded group of some of the best U.S. figure skaters of the past and present took the ice in the nation's capital to remember and raise money for the victims of the midair collision outside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.