Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Yak-42 plane carrying Locomotiv crashed

Witnesses saw the chartered jet Yak-42 carrying Russia's major league ice hockey team Lokomotiv  to burst into flames shortly after taking off from the Tunoshna airport, about 250km  north-east of Moscow.

The Jet  has crashed on take-off near the central city of Yaroslavl, with 43 deaths.Only wo people survived with serious injuries after the disaster.It appears many of the team were aboard, heading to Belarus for the season's first match.

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