The wreckage of Yak Service Flight 9633 in Volga River
Accident
Date
7 September 2011 (2011-09-07)
Summary
Runway overrun and stall on take-off; improper takeoff configuration
Site
2 km (1.2 mi) west of Tunoshna Airport, Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia 57°33′01″N40°07′18″E / 57.55028°N 40.12167°E / 57.55028; 40.12167
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Yakovlev Yak-42D
Operator
YAK-Service
ICAO flight No.
AKY9633
Call sign
434
Registration
RA-42434
Flight origin
Tunoshna Airport, Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
Destination
Minsk National Airport, Minsk, Minsk Oblast, Belarus
Occupants
45
Passengers
37
Crew
8
Fatalities
44
Injuries
1
Survivors
1
On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 charter flight operated by YAK-Service, carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed during take-off near Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. All but one of the 45 people on board were killed. The aircraft overran the runway at Tunoshna Airport before briefly lifting off, striking an antenna mast, catching fire, and crashing on the bank of the Volga river.[1] The tragedy is commonly known as the Lokomotiv hockey team disaster.[2][3][4]
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, a member of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), was on its way to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 season.[citation needed] All players from the main roster and four from the youth team were on board and died in the accident. The only survivor was the aircraft's mechanic; one player also survived the crash, but died in the following days from injuries.
The subsequent investigation determined that several factors contributed to the accident, including poor training; the incorrect calculation of the take-off speed by the flight crew; and the inadvertent application of wheel braking by one of the pilots, who had improperly placed his feet on the pedals.[5] It was later revealed that the pilot had used falsified documents to obtain permission to fly the aircraft, and that both crew members lacked the training necessary to fly the Yak-42.[6]
^Крушение самолета Як-42 в Ярославской области (in Russian). Ministry of Emergency Situations. 7 September 2011. Archived from the original on 17 January 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
^Pinchevsky, Tal. "Victims of 2011 Lokomotiv plane crash". nhl.com. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
^Hackel, Stu (6 September 2012). "Lokomotiv Yaroslavl remembered, revived year after KHL air crash". si.com.
^Parker, Ryan (7 September 2012). "Remembering Lokomotiv Yaroslavl". nhlpa.com.
^Barry, Ellen (2 November 2011). "Pilot Error Found in Crash That Killed Russian Hockey Players". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2021. Test pilots established in a flight experiment that an erroneous pushing of the brake pedals during takeoff is possible only if the pilot's feet are placed by mistake on the braking floor.
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