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KHL teams to reseat on Boeing and AirbusKHL’s governing body has approved a Players’ Union project obliging teams in the league to use only Boeing and Airbus planes for flights. Hockey plane crash |
RT’s 10 that shaped 2011: Lokomotiv plane crash tragedyWith 2012 just around the corner, RT continues its own countdown with ten special reports on events that have shaped 2011. We are looking back at major stories through the eyes of RT correspondents who witnessed them. RT's top 10 of 2011 Hockey plane crash |
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Revived Lokomotiv: first official game after deadly crashRussian ice hockey side Lokomotiv Yaroslavl have played their first competitive game, just three months after a plane crash wiped out their entire squad. Hockey plane crash |
American hockey wife spearheads support for Lokomotiv familiesThe ice hockey world is still reeling from the plane crash which took the lives of the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team this autumn. One woman whose husband is a prominent KHL defenseman has been reaching out to the families of the victims. Hockey plane crash |
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Revived and Rejuvenated: Lokomotiv publish new rosterLokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club, whose main squad got killed in a plane crash in September, have revealed their new lineup to take part in the VHL season. Hockey plane crash |
Hockey plane crash: Drugs and bad brakingThe probe into September’s crash near Yaroslavl, which killed an entire hockey team and most crew members, found illegal drugs in the co-pilot’s blood, and irregularities in the airline company’s pilot training program. Hockey plane crash |
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Lokomotiv begin building new squadEgor Yakovlev has become the first new player signed by the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team, whose main squad members were killed in a plane crash in September. Hockey plane crash |
Ovechkin scores to commemorate LokomotivWashington Capitals star Aleksandr Ovechkin has snatched his first goal of the NHL in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, which the two sides dedicated to the memory of the perished Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team. Hockey plane crash |
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Portsmouth and Rostov play friendly for Lokomotiv familiesEnglish football side Portsmouth have hosted Russian rivals FC Rostov in a charity game to raise money for the families of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team who were killed in a September 7 plane crash. Hockey plane crash |
Lokomotiv to play first post-plane crash game in DecemberLokomotiv Yaroslavl, who lost their main squad in a fatal plane crash in September, will hold their first game since the tragedy on December 12. Hockey plane crash |
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Caps & Pens dedicate clash to Lokomotiv YaroslavlThe effort to help the families of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash victims will get a boost at the NHL game between the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 13. The rivals are teaming up to raise funds to support the cause. Hockey plane crash |
Doomed flight’s only survivor speaks for first timeThe only survivor of the Yak-42 flight has given a first-person account of the tragedy, which claimed lives of 44 people, including members of the Lokomotiv hockey team. Hockey plane crash |
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Tragic hockey star’s lifesaving legacyA sad twist in the Yak-42 tragedy reveals that one of Lokomotiv players who died in the crash was anonymously giving money to sick kids, and the last half-million ruble payment was transferred to a young cancer patient minutes before the take-off. Hockey plane crash |
Did pilots’ misunderstanding turn fatal for Yak-42?Almost two weeks after the fatal Yak-42 air crash in Central Russia, media reports suggest that experts are probing whether miscommunication between the two pilots – which showed up in a transcript of a cockpit recording - caused a fatal mistake. Hockey plane crash |
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New details of Yak-42 crash releasedInvestigators say an as yet unidentified braking force caused the doomed Yak-42 aircraft to crash during its take-off run, killing 44 people near Yaroslavl earlier this month. Hockey plane crash |
Yak-42 crash to be simulated, live and virtuallyExperts are to use virtual and even live simulations of the Yak-42 air crash to help investigators discover the causes of last week’s tragedy near Yaroslavl which took 44 lives. Top experts involved in analysing the Kacynski crash will take part. Hockey plane crash |
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Officials rule out 'emergency brake' theory of Yak-42 crashReports that an engaged hand brake could have caused the plane carrying Russian hockey team Lokomotiv to crash have no evidentiary support, according to both aviation officials and experts. Hockey plane crash |
Doomed pilots may have had brake on at takeoffInvestigators are examining the possibility that the pilots of the doomed Yak-42 airliner took off with a parking brake on, according to a newspaper report. The deadly flight killed 44 people, including most of the Lokomotiv hockey team. Hockey plane crash |
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Silent start for postponed KHL seasonAll KHL season openers started with a minute’s silence on Monday, commemorating the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team killed in a plane crash last week. CSKA beat Yugra in the first league game played in Moscow. Hockey plane crash |
Fans say final farewell to Lokomotiv 'sole survivor'Thousands of followers of the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team have said a final farewell to Aleksandr Galimov, the last victim of the fatal Yak-42 crash, at a ceremony at the team’s home stadium. Hockey plane crash |



















