(Kalamazoo, MI) – Hundreds of figure skaters, coaches, and their families are at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo for the Midwestern Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships, but many of them knew some of the skaters that were killed Wednesday night in a Washington, DC plane crash. Greater Kalamazoo Skating Association secretary Jessica Ponton says the skating community can be tight-knit and she says the skaters “become friends immediately” when they meet. She says she and her daughter knew people who were on the flight that collided with an Army helicopter and called a “punch to the gut.”…