DaGreatGazoo Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 What a tragic story....The pilot of a plane that crashed last year, wiping out a professional Russian ice hockey team, had been granted permission to fly it based on forged documents, federal investigators said on Thursday.The pilot and co-pilot of the Yak-42 plane "had not undergone the necessary training to fly this type of aircraft", Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia's top investigative agency, said in televised comments.He said the pilot's permission to fly the plane had been granted on the basis of "falsified documents".The Yak-42 aircraft slammed into a river bank shortly after takeoff on Sept. 7, 2011 from Yaroslavl, home city of the Kontinental Hockey League team Lokomotiv, whose Russian and foreign stars were on board flying to an away match.Thirty-six Lokomotiv players and officials and eight crew members were killed; one crew member survived. Vadim Timofeyev, deputy head of airline Yak-Service which operated the flight, was held responsible for the "blatant violations" and has been charged with breaching air safety rules, Markin said. He could face seven years in prison.Among the dead were Swedish goalkeeper Stefan Liv, a former world and Olympic champion, and Canadian Brad McCrimmon, who played more than 1,200 NHL games and was head coach of Lokomotiv at the time of the crash.Russia and the former Soviet republics combined for one of the world's worst air-traffic safety records last year, with a total accident rate almost three times the world average, according to the International Air Transport Association. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hf101 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/06/photos-yaroslavl-lokomotiv-crash-and-aftermathMakes me wonder why the NHL stars who are paid rather well here would want to play in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 @hf101 Hmmm, forged doucuments for the aircraft pilots, no difibulators.....yeah, if I was an NHL player, I'd be staying the hell on this side of the pond! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 @hf101 Hmmm, forged doucuments for the aircraft pilots, no difibulators.....yeah, if I was an NHL player, I'd be staying the hell on this side of the pond! Guess it all depends on the player. Claude Giroux has no reason to go play there. That's obvious. But if you're 30ish, maybe on your way out, and get offered 1 year at $750,000 here, or 2 years at $1.500,000 per there, what do you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 @flyercanuck "But if you're 30ish, maybe on your way out, and get offered 1 year at $750,000 here, or 2 years at $1.500,000 per there, what do you do?" Get on my bad motorscootersnowmoblie and ride? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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