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At least 43 people have died in a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger plane crash near the city of Yaroslavl in Central Russia. The majority of victims were members of the local ice hockey team Lokomotiv.
There were 37 passengers and eight crew members on board. Of the 45 people, only two survived, reports RT correspondent Anissa Naouai at the scene of the tragedy.
The plane went down and caught fire shortly after taking to the air. Preliminary reports say it had insufficient lift and hit a beacon tower. An air traffic controller told Itar-Tass, that the aircraft was some 50 to 60 meters above the ground when it tilted to the left and crashed.
The crash site is some 2,500 meters from the runway. The incident happened just next to the Volga River and some fragments of the aircraft and bodies of the victims fell into the water. So far 35 bodies have been recovered from the site, local rescue services say.
HK Lokomotiv confirmed that its entire 37-strong main squad was on board the Yak-42. They were traveling to the Belarusian capital Minsk. Eleven of the victims were foreign players for the club. The squad included three players from the Czech Republic, two Ukrainians as well as athletes from Belarus, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Slovakia and Sweden.
The two survivors are in a serious condition and have been taken to hospital. One of them is team member Aleksandr Galimov. The other is a flight engineer, preliminary reports say.
"Galimov has burns to 80 per cent of his body, the crew member has broken bones and lacerations in addition to massive burns," Dr. Viktor Berezing from the hospital's burn trauma department told Interfax.
Aviation authorities say the Yak-42 underwent all the routine checks before being cleared for the flight and was in good condition.
It is the first-ever fatal crash involving a sports team in modern Russia. Soviet Union's worst incident of this kind was the 1979 mid-air collision of two Tupolev Tu-134s in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine. Seventeen players and staff of the then-Soviet top-division Pakhtakor Football Club team died in the crash.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yR76-ocYsU
We will miss you all guys...R.I.P.
There were 37 passengers and eight crew members on board. Of the 45 people, only two survived, reports RT correspondent Anissa Naouai at the scene of the tragedy.
The plane went down and caught fire shortly after taking to the air. Preliminary reports say it had insufficient lift and hit a beacon tower. An air traffic controller told Itar-Tass, that the aircraft was some 50 to 60 meters above the ground when it tilted to the left and crashed.
The crash site is some 2,500 meters from the runway. The incident happened just next to the Volga River and some fragments of the aircraft and bodies of the victims fell into the water. So far 35 bodies have been recovered from the site, local rescue services say.
HK Lokomotiv confirmed that its entire 37-strong main squad was on board the Yak-42. They were traveling to the Belarusian capital Minsk. Eleven of the victims were foreign players for the club. The squad included three players from the Czech Republic, two Ukrainians as well as athletes from Belarus, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Slovakia and Sweden.
The two survivors are in a serious condition and have been taken to hospital. One of them is team member Aleksandr Galimov. The other is a flight engineer, preliminary reports say.
"Galimov has burns to 80 per cent of his body, the crew member has broken bones and lacerations in addition to massive burns," Dr. Viktor Berezing from the hospital's burn trauma department told Interfax.
Aviation authorities say the Yak-42 underwent all the routine checks before being cleared for the flight and was in good condition.
It is the first-ever fatal crash involving a sports team in modern Russia. Soviet Union's worst incident of this kind was the 1979 mid-air collision of two Tupolev Tu-134s in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine. Seventeen players and staff of the then-Soviet top-division Pakhtakor Football Club team died in the crash.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yR76-ocYsU
We will miss you all guys...R.I.P.
