The International Ice Hockey Federation said 27 players of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team were killed, along with two coaches and seven club officials. Russian NHL star Alex Ovechkin tweeted: "I'm in shock!!!!!Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember. In June, another Russian passenger jet, a Tu-134, crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. Seventeen members of the Pakhtakor Tashkent team on that plane were killed. A plane crash in 1950 near the Russian city of Sverdlov, now called Yekaterinburg, claimed the lives of 13 players and officials in the air force's ice hockey squad, while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United players their lives.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_poor-quality-fuel-could-be-a-cause-of-russian-plane-crash_1584645
http://www.lohud.com/article/20110908/SPORTS01/109080355/Russian-plane-crash-stuns-hockey-world
