2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster

Misfortune machine RA- 42434 in 2006

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The plane crash near Yaroslavl was a flight accident in which 7 September 2011 a Yakovlev Yak -42 shortly after takeoff from the airport Tunoschna near Yaroslavl crashed in Russia. The machine was in use for the charter airline YAK Service ( Як - Сервис ).

Special attention was the accident because almost the entire crew of the ice hockey club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl died.

Misfortune and cause

The accident occurred around 16:05 local time clock at the start of Tunoschna airport near Yaroslavl. The aircraft rolled at the start beyond the end of the runway and took off only from the underlying gravel strip. Thereafter, the aircraft won eyewitness accounts hardly altitude and collided with an antenna, whereupon it broke and fell at the mouth of Tunoschonka in a tributary of the Volga into the water.

The accident was caused by pilot error. The pilot operated inadvertently and unrecognized by mistake the brakes just before take-off. Furthermore, the co-pilot had drugs in the blood, affecting the reactivity and airworthiness.

There were 45 people on board: 37 members of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and 8 crew members. 43 people were killed immediately in the accident, two seriously injured initially survived: the striker Alexander Galimov and flight attendant Alexander Sisow. Five days after the crash also succumbed to Alexander Galimov his injuries.

The hockey team was on its way to the Belarusian capital Minsk, where their first championship game of the 2011/12 season will take place against the HC Dinamo Minsk would.

Effects

  • The accident occurred on the day of the upbeat of the 2011/12 season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The traditional opening match at the Kubok Otkrytija between the reigning Gagarin Cup holders Salavat Yulaev Ufa and the runners-up Atlant Mytischtschi was after the announcement of the crash by the officials after 12:13 minutes played in the first third with the score at 1-0 for first Ufa - and then canceled.
  • The leagues head of the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) was the day after the accident initially announced that the match operation will until further notice. The season opener was thus postponed indefinitely. A little later the start of the season was scheduled for September 12.
  • Although the club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl almost lost his entire team in the crash, the KHL president Vyacheslav Fetisov announced on September 8 that on 11 September, the members of the new squad would be presented. This means that the promised participation would have been connected to the September 12, beginning KHL season. Three days after the disaster announced team President Yuri Yakovlev, that Lokomotiv Yaroslavl waived Players out on loan and exposes the KHL 2011/12 season from the league. However, the newly formed team from December 2011 to begin rebuilding in the second-rate Wysschaja Hockey League and be automatically set for the play-offs.
  • The Kubok Otkrytija, at the Austragungstag happened the misfortune was renamed locomotive Cup.
  • In Russia, the flight operations was set with identical machines for the purpose of one-time review until further notice.
  • Russian President Medvedev called after the crash of a radical reform of the Russian civil aviation with the aim to improve safety.

Passenger list

According to media reports, the following persons on board:

Player

Coach and coaching staff

Crew

Filming

In 2012, the accident was the ninth episode of Season 10 as Lokomotiv hockey team disaster in English and as a disaster in Russia in German at the Canadian television series Mayday - adjusted alarm in the cockpit.

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