Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!September 7, 2011 was the “darkest day” in the history of Russian ice hockey, when every member of the sport’s leading team was killed in a devastating plane crash that remains unexplained a decade later.Crash investigators found a web of clues including falsified documents, banned drugs, and reckless rule-breaking that all contributed to the deadly accident.Lokomotiv Yaroslavl were set to take on Minsk in the opening game of the 2011–12 season.
But as their 120-seat Yakovlev Yak-42D set to carry Lokomotiv’s 26 players and three team staff to the Belarusian capital took off it overshot the end of the runway, clipping a radio antenna before spinning into the Volga river and bursting into.
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