Hockey plane crash
- RT’s 10 that shaped 2011: Lokomotiv plane crash tragedy
With 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.News - Hockey plane crash: Drugs and bad braking
The 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.News - Doomed flight’s only survivor speaks for first time
The 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.News - Tragic hockey star’s lifesaving legacy
A 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.News - 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.News - New details of Yak-42 crash released
Investigators 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.News
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