Russian contrasts hockey on the rise, air transport is in decline

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Russian contrasts hockey on the rise, air transport is in decline

Yesterday's plane crash that killed hockey players and coaches of Yaroslavl "Locomotive", at the same time reflects the best and worst features of today's Russia: business and state-owned companies are investing a lot of money in the KHL and not enough - to transport passengers, in mass media. Only This year was eight fatal crashes, including six - from June to now.

Plane crash near Yaroslavl, which killed dozens of hockey players at the same time reflects the best and worst features of Russia: a professional ice hockey league under development, but on air transport remain a big problem, writes The Los Angeles Times. Continental League is attractive to NHL stars, who show that in Russia the level of wages is quite competitive, and schedule more benign, but on Wednesday one of the leading clubs in the KHL, Yaroslavl "Locomotive", fell victim to poor security in air transport, the newspaper said. Among the dead - a number of former NHL, including the coach, "Locomotive", 52-year-old Canadian, Brad McCrimmon. Perhaps because of the crash CHL appeal fades, says a correspondent.

Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov said that from January 1 will be retired civil aircraft not equipped with an automatic device that warns of a potential collision with the ground or other objects.

The newspaper cites the opinion of an expert who believes that this is not enough. Not all Russian-made aircraft will replace the foreign, because foreign aircraft, we simply do not have adequate infrastructure, said a former test pilot Alexander Akimenkov. In addition, he said, the pilots did not undergo proper training for crisis management by Russian aircraft with minimal avionics. "I really do not want to say so, but the situation is bad, and the aircraft will be split again and again" - concluded Akimenkov.

Yesterday's air crash near Yaroslavl - is not only a blow to professional hockey, but another terrible evidence of security problems in air transport in Russia, writes The New York Times. This year was eight fatal crashes, including six - from June to now. Journalists think of the other accidents that resulted in massive loss of athletes: in 1961 the entire U.S. team in figure skating was killed on his way to world championship in Prague.

Yesterday's accident certainly cause heavy damage to the Russian hockey team, the newspaper continues .*** businessmen and state-owned companies are investing a lot of money in the Continental Hockey League, including the recruitment of foreign stars. *** "After the crash of these stars are probably ponder whether to accept the proposals ", - considers the publication.

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"In Russia, there was only one accident, comparable to the loss of" Locomotive "- says the newspaper. - In 1950, destroyed virtually all of the USSR national team in hockey, when approaching the airport in Sverdlovsk plane crashed in a snowstorm. Admin team Vasily Stalin conceal this fact, fearing the reaction of his father. Stalin Jr. immediately got a new team, and his father apparently did not notice the difference "- the article says.

As to the "Yak-42", which crashed near Yaroslavl, the paper calls it one of the old Soviet planes, causing concern in the light of a succession of problems and disasters.

In the village Tunoshna, where the plane crashed, the journalists watched as young men beat the bells of the local church. 16-year-old Eugene Bazurenko and his friends, dressed in jerseys and scarves "Locomotive", stood stone-faced. "I do not know whether rack up a new team who will play for her. I just know that the next five years in Yaroslavl is not hockey" - said Bazurenko.

In a plane crash of Yak-42 near Yaroslavl killed 43 of the 45 passengers on board. Among them - the players and accompanying persons from the Yaroslavl club "Locomotive", says Die Tageszeitung. According to the MOE and the Federal Air Transport Agency, the liner pulled away from the runway, but was unable to gain altitude, collided with an antenna beacon, and then fell to the ground and caught fire. Part of the fuselage fell into the Volga. According to one of the unofficial versions, the airplane could be overridden.

Among the dead were a lot of foreign players, including German hockey player, the article says.

"In recent months, Russia has fallen to a flurry of failures with all kinds of aircraft. A few companions on their way to the ISS, were lost in transit. One of them crashed in the Asian part of the country. Do not reached the calculated orbit and the satellite navigation system GLONASS, ended in failure launch of an intercontinental missile" Mace "- writes the commentator.

From Tuesday to Yaroslavl on the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev hosts the annual Global Policy Forum, the newspaper reminds.

Sportswriter Globe and Mail in connection with the death of Yaroslavl "Locomotive" quoted coach Fred Shero, whom he inspired his team to the Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup "Hockey - that's what we live in a world where we best meet and overcome pain, injustice and death. But life - just a place where we spend time between matches. " As the author writes, "Today, this approach certainly seems odd. In this week off-season life and her inseparable companion - death - have acquired a new meaning for the players." The death of the whole team in yesterday's crash shows that over the pain and death it is impossible even for a hockey field.

The tragedy, which killed the Russian team in ice hockey "locomotive" of Yaroslavl - is not the first crash, which caused a blow to the world of sports, like La Stampa. As for Italy, comes to mind the tragedy in the supergene: May 4, 1949 aircraft with the football team on board the Grande Torino crashed into a hill on which stands the famous Basilica of supergene. And in 1958, broke up the famous "Busby Crumbs" Matt Busby, the coach of football club Manchester United, brought together a young team, which won the British championships in 1956 and 1957. In February 1958, after the match for the Champions Cup the plane on which migrate command, crashed during takeoff at the airport in Munich, seven players were killed instantly. Matt Busby himself twice rites on account of severe wounds, but he survived the most wonderful way.

"January 28, 1966 in Bremen airport when landing the aircraft crashed to the ground Lufthansa, which was carrying 46 people, including seven members of the National Italian swim team and their coach Paolo Costolo. This catastrophe is not one escaped," - said the publication .

"In 1987 in Peru, mourned the death of 16 football players from Alianza Lima: their plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean. In 1989, in a plane crash killed the football team from Suriname in 1993 - the national football team Zambia. The victims of plane crashes are 18 members of the national team U.S. Figure Skating Championships (Belgium, 1961), 25 players Bolivian football club The Strongest (Andes, 1969) and four members of the U.S. national team boxing (1980, Warsaw), "- says the article.

Press digest
 September 8, 2011

*** It may be unthinkable to spend enough money to buy foreign players ..
Maybe it's time for businessmen and state companies to pay attention to the aviation industry, which just ruined ..***