43 dead as ice hockey team’s plane crashes
The crash of the Yak-42 aircraft, whose passengers included players and coaches of a team that includes foreign stars, plunged Russia’s sports world into grief and marred a political forum featuring President Dmitry Medvedev.
The plane was carrying 37 passengers and eight crew to Minsk in Belarus when it crashed a few kilometres from the airport at Tunoshna outside Yaroslavl, 250km north of Moscow, the emergencies ministry said.
