The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred on 7 September 2011 at 16:02 local time, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying the professional ice hockey team and coaching staff of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), crashed near Yaroslavl, Russia.The team was on its way to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 KHL season. All players from the main roster plus four from the farm team were on board the aircraft, which caught fire and crashed shortly after take-off, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from Tunoshna Airport. The survivor, Alexander Galimov, have critical injuries. The Yak-Service aircraft struck a tower mast at Tunoshna Airport as it was taking off. The plane then listed to the right and crashed into the Volga River beyond the airport, catching fire. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who had been on his way to Yaroslavl for the Global Policy Forum, sent his condolences to the families of plane crash victims, and will visit the place of plane crash. Upon hearing the news of the accident, KHL officials stopped and postponed the Salavat Yulaev Ufa–Atlant Moscow Oblast game already in progress. The Russian Emergencies Minsitry has published a list of passengers and crew on board the Yak-42 that crashed outside of Yaroslavl, where at least 43 people lost their lives. Two people have survived and remain in critical condition at a local hospital.
Passenger list: Vitaly Anikeyenko; Yury Bakhvalov; Aleksandr Belyayev; Mikhail Balandin; Aleksandr Vasyunov; Josef Vasicek; Aleksandr Vyukhin; Aleksandr Galimov – in critical condition; Robert Dietrich; Pavol Demitra; Andrei Zimin; Marat Kalimulin; Aleksandr Karpovtsev; Aleksandr Kalyanin; Andrei Kiryukhin; Nikita Klyukin; Igor Korolyov; Nikolai Krivonosov; Yevgeny Kunnov; Vyacheslav Kuznetsov; Stefan Liv; Jan Marek ; Brad McCrimmon; Sergey Ostapchuk; Vladimir Piskunov; Karel Rachunek; Evgeny Sidorov; Karlis Skrastins; Ruslan Saley; Pavel Snurnitsyn; Daniil Sobchenko; Ivan Tkachenko; Pavel Trakhanov; Igor Urychev; Gennady Churilov; Maksim Shuvalov; Artyom Yarchuk; Crew: Andrey Solontsev; Igor Zhevelov; Sergei Zhuravlev; Vladimir Matyushkin; Aleksandr Sizov – in critical condition; Yelena Sarmatova; Nadezhda Maksumova; Yelena Shavina (author; wikipedia; russia today; photo by reuters, AP)
