Major tragedy in Kontinental Hockey League

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

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The CBC perspective on this. Many Canadian players were possibly involved, but many are at the training camp in St. John's NL.

[Mping2 0]

No canadian player, mostly russians, a german, a slovak, a swede and czhecs. A can coach though. Terrible tragedy. Many great players.

[x493x 446]

I heard a whole team was on the flight. Devastating for whoever they represented.

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[emperordaniel 1,281]

The plane wasn't in bad condition or anything, it was apparently the pilot's fault for allowing several things to happen that made the crash unavoidable. Three Stanley Cup champions, two of who were also a World champion, were killed in the crash, besides two more World champions, one of whom was also an Olympic gold medalist for Sweden, and a Lady Byng Trophy winner

[krbe 193]

Sorry to hear about this, but that's Russian planes for you. The Polish President was killed on an old Russian plane, too. Their governmental aviation controls are... let's just say "lacking".

Barbarossa

No, usually there's little wrong with the planes themselves -- it's rather the people surrounding the planes that make them crash. The Polish plane crashed while attempting landing in adverse conditions on a non-ILS runway whilst not following the aircraft operation manual. In many cases Russian planes fall down because of crew error, such as the previous example. In addition to in-flight errors this also includes error such as overloading / poorly loading the aircrafts -- or as in one instance, allowing the cargo of cigarettes catching fire.

In other cases poorly equipped airports and flight plans lead to plane crashes. In 1984, a Tu-154 approaching Omsk received a landing permission from an air traffic controller who fell asleep on duty shortly after; not noticing (and not being able to actually see the runway) the heavy maintenance trucks which were operating there which the plane crashed into. The subsequent investigation found several severe security breaches on many Soviet airports. Apart from flying in more adverse weather conditions on worse-equipped airports, Russian planes also fly more often in poor political climates -- resulting in several shoot-downs of passenger planes.

This particular Yak-42 stroke a radio mast at the end of runway -- the video shows that they have just started pulling the plane's nose up. A Yak-42 with 50 people on board does not need 3000 metres of runway. The rumours are that the fuel used was of too poor quality to get the plane up to take-off speed -- but good enough to take the plane to decision speed, at which point the pilots must decide whether to abort take-off.

  Edited September 10, 2011 by krbe