R.I.P.

Players
Viktor Anikienko
Mikhail Balandin
Gennady Churilov
Pavol Demitra
Robert Dietrich
Marat Kalimulin
Alexander Kalyanin
Andrei Kiryukhin
Nikita Klyukin
Stefan Liv
Jan Marek
Sergei Ostapchuk
Karel Rachunek
Ruslan Salei
Maxim Shuvalov
Karlis Skrastins
Pavel Snuritsyn
Daniil Sobchenko
Ivan Tkachenko
Pavel Trakhanov
Yuri Uryuchev
Josef Vasícek
Alexander Vasyunov
Alexander Vyukhin
Artem Yarchuk

Staff
Brad McCammon
Alexander Karpovtsev
Igor Korolev
Yuri Bakhlalov
Aleksandr Belyayev
Nikolai Krivosonov
Yevgeni Kunnov
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Vladimir Piskunov
Yevgeni Sidorov
Andrei Zimin

Flight crew
Andrei Solomentsev
Igor Zhivelov
Nadesha Maksumova
Vladimir Matyushin
Elena Sarmatova
Elena Shavina
Sergy Zhuravlev

All of these perished in the terrible accident when the small plane hit a TV tower adjacent of Yaroslavl as the just had taken off to face Dinamo Minsk in the opener of the all-ex-Soviet KHL Series. The plane type has had 8 of 182 versions involved in crashes.

Alexander Galimov (player)
Alexander Sizov (flight engineer)

are alive at this moment in time, but are seriously injured. Galimov has burns over 90 % of his body...  

R.I.P. and my thoughts are with the perished's families, fans of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and everyone else affected by this tragedy, which is next to when an American football college team was eliminated in 1970 (70 people) the worst airplane crash involving a professional sports team ever.

Lazio are with you, rest in peace