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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

An airplane crashes in Russia, 44 dead


An airliner type Yakovlev 42 crashed today near the airport in Yaroslavl, 300 km northeast of Moscow, killing at least 44 dead. The tragedy occurred at 16:05 local (2:05 p.m. in France).

Plupartdes the occupants of the aircraft belonged to the hockey team in town. According to the website of the Russian hockey championship, the coach is a Canadian and a Swedish player has Lokomotiv, three Czechs and Slovak. The team finished third in April 2011 the Russian hockey championship. She had been crowned champion three times in the past, in 1997, 2002 and 2003.

Russia is regularly the scene of air accidents involving aging aircraft of Soviet design. Eleven occupants of a cargo plane Antonov 12 were killed in August. In July, five people died in the crash of an Antonov 24 and June 20, a Tupolev 134 crashed in Karelia by 47 deaths.

The Yak-42 is a three-engined Soviet-designed that was commissioned in 1980.

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