adminkilled virtually the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional hockey team has arrived in Moscow, a spokesman for the ministry said on Thursday.
Forty-three people – including all but one of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’s players and coaches – were killed after the medium-range Yak-42 aircraft came down shortly after taking off from Yaroslavl’s Tunoshna airport. The two survivors, Russian player Alexander Galimov and member of the crew Alexander Sizov, are in critical condition.
Galimov has burns to 90 percent of his body, a hospital official said.
A memorial ceremony for those killed in the crash will be held in Yaroslavl’s sports palace tomorrow, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl president Yuri Yakovlev said.
The flight data recorder of the ill-fated jet was found yesterday, emergencies ministry official reported from the scene of the tragedy.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, founded in 1949 as the team of the Railways Ministry, is one of Russia’s leading hockey teams and came runner up in the nascent Kontinental Hockey League in 2008 and 2009. – RIA Novosti.
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