Mayday

Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Yak-Service, Flight 9633)

Aired Mar 4, 2013 · 1:00 PM ET · 45 min

On 7 September 2011, a Yakovlev Yak-42D carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team crashed on take-off at the Volga River, near Yaroslavl, Russia. Out of the 45 occupants only two survived. Five days later one of the survivors (Alexander Galimov) died, succumbing to his injuries.