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Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's plane Crashes

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This is from Mlive.. and all the article had...

A plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League has crashed, killing 43 people and leaving two persons critically injured, according to multiple reports.

Former Detroit Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon was hired as Lokomotiv's head coach in May. And former Red Wings defenseman Ruslan Salei signed with Lokomotiv in the off-season.

McCrimmon, 52, a former Red Wings defenseman, served as an assistant coach in Detroit for the past three seasons before he and club agreed to part ways in May


http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2011/09/reports_russian_team_lokomotiv.html
Former Red Wings goaltending prospect Stefan Liv, who played 36 games for the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2006-07 but never played for Detroit, also was on that team.

No details have emerged yet on who was on that plane.

More details shortly on this developing story.
 
http://www.ajc.com/sports/former-thrashers-coach-feared-1161174.html?cxtype=rss_news

By George Mathis

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The plane, a Yak-42, was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl.

There is one reported survivor.

Canadian Brad McCrimmon, an assistant coach with the Thrashers from 2003-2008, was aboard the plane.

Also aboard were former NHL players Pavol Demitra, from Slovakia, and Ruslan Salei, from Belarus.

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 crashed immediately after taking off from an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. It said one person survived the crash with grave injuries.

The team was heading to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season of the Continental Hockey League.

The CHL is a league of several ex-Soviet countries.

McCrimmon, 52, is a native of Saskatchewan and head coach of the Russian team. He played defence for six NHL teams
 
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By George Mathis

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The plane, a Yak-42, was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl.

There is one reported survivor.

Canadian Brad McCrimmon, an assistant coach with the Thrashers from 2003-2008, was aboard the plane.

Also aboard were former NHL players Pavol Demitra, from Slovakia, and Ruslan Salei, from Belarus.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 crashed immediately after taking off from an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. It said one person survived the crash with grave injuries.

The team was heading to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season of the Continental Hockey League.

The CHL is a league of several ex-Soviet countries.

McCrimmon, 52, is a native of Saskatchewan and head coach of the Russian team. He played defence for six NHL teams
 
Rip to everyone on the plane... This is terrible news..
 
tbone413 said:
Has it been confirmed that Salei was onboard? I heard reports elsewhere which said he was not on the plane. I really hope he wasnt...his wife just had a baby last winter.

From what I can find, it hasn't been confirmed yet. Some reports say he was already in Minsk but some say he was on the plane. This Russian newspaper has the list of everyone on board.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/479312
 
Just awful... I heard about this a little bit ago from a co-worker.

McCarty was on 97.1 a week or so ago and told a story about how the engines went out on the Wings jet on a trip to western Canada and how worried everybody got. It really makes you stop and think about how close you come sometimes.
 
I used to worry about this when I was a kid, what would happen if the Tigers or Lions plane crashed.

This was after the Marshall football teams plane crashed.

No shit, I probably developed my first ulcer over that.
 
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