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World&Russia mourn Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team died in plane crash

The World mourns the loss of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice Hockey Team
The World mourns the loss of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice Hockey Team

Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev visited the site of the plane crash carrying Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team that killed all but one players of the entire ice hockey team, vowed to find out what went wrong, while the world mourns in shock.

”This is a shock for the entire country. I’ve given an order to conduct a thorough investigation” the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev spoke sadly, after he laid red roses on the banks of the River Tunoshna, where some of the debris of the crashed plane carrying Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team still lies.

Russia Plane Crash : Lokomotiv Ice Hockey Roster Wiped Out

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has promised a full investigation into the plane crash Wednesday that wiped out all but one players from the Russian ice hockey major league team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. A total of 36 players and officials, along with seven crew, died when the plane went down shortly after take-off from Yaroslavl’s Tunoshna airport — about 250 kilometers north-east of Moscow. The cause remains unknown. The dead included the team’s Canadian coach, Brad McCrimmon, and Swedish Olympic champion goalie Stefan Liv, Slovak star player Pavol Demitra, Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek and German international player Robert Dietrich. One player, Alexandr Galimov, and one crew member survived the terrible crash with severe injuries.

The World mourns the loss Yaroslavl of Ice Hockey Team

Ice hockey fans from around the globe are mourning after the plane crash in Russia wiped out most players from the major league team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Thousands of fans gathered, singing team songs or just standing in silence outside the arena in Yaroslavl to pay their respects, many dressed in team colours with scarves and flags.

In Slovakia, fans lit candles for their star player Pavol Demitra, while Czechs paid similar respects in the Old Town Square in Prague to honour their three compatriots killed in the crash: Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek.

Ice Hockey World Grieving for Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

World ice hockey chief Rene Fasel described the disaster as “the darkest day in the history of our sport”. The BBC reported that thousands of fans gathered in Yaroslavl dressed in team colors with scarves and flags. Many visited the hockey stadium throughout the night to light candles and pay their respects.

And as news of the plane crash spread, NHL players sent messages of sympathy on Twitter, which were posted on the official NHL website. Gary Bettman, of the North American National Hockey League (NHL), said the crash represented a “catastrophic loss to the hockey world”.

Lokomotiv is one of the most successful clubs in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), and the organisation’s chairman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, described the air disaster as an “irreparable loss for world ice hockey”.Meanwhile Kontinental Hockey League president Alexander Medvedev said Thursday that the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team would be “revived” and take part in this year’s the championship.

The crashed plane was heading to Belarus for the Russian Ice Hockey League’s season’s first match when it crashed in the afternoon. The aircraft then burst into flames, with some of the wreckage and bodies of passengers falling in the nearby River Tunoshna, a tributary of the Volga. A local policeman told the BBC Russian service he had seen the plane coming down. He stated the plane had barely taken off before it plunged to the ground, and he saw “flames as high as a nine-storey building”.

Russian aviation officials were quoted as saying the Yak-42 jet had failed to gain height and hit a radio mast, breaking up and catching fire. They said the jet entered service in 1993 and had a certificate of airworthiness valid until 1 October 2011. Russia has a poor aviation safety record. In July this year a passenger plane crashed in northern Russia and 44 people died.

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