Shortly after take-off, heading towards Minsk, Belarus to play a KHL Game, the aircraft struck the top of a mast, causing the aircraft to catch fire. The damage, and fire would ultimately see the aircraft make ground impact less than 2 miles from the airport.

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The investigation into what caused the aircraft to hit the mast, and make ground impact shortly after revealed that the pilot had accidently placed his foot on the brake whilst taking off, slowing the plane down and not allowing it to gain enough lift to clear the mast. The aircraft travelled over 1,000ft over the end of the runway before gaining lift, unfortunately the aircraft barely managed to reach 5 meters in altitude, resulting in the collision with the mast.

All members of the team onboard the aircraft lost their lives, 1 player however survived due to being left behind in Yaroslavl. The soul survivor of the entire team.

44 people, including team and crew lost their lives. Below are the names of those lost.

Players;

Stefan Liv G
Alexander Vyukhin G

Vitaly Anikeyenko D
Mikhail Balandin D
Robert Dietrich D
Marat Kalimulin D
Karel Rachnek D
Ruslan Salei D
Maxim Shuvalov D
Krlis Skrasti D
Pavel Trakhanov D
Yuri Urychev D

Sergei Ostapchuk LW
Artem Yarchuk LW
Alexander Vasyunov LW
Ivan Tkachenko LW
Alexander Galimov LW (Survived Impact, died in hospital)

Gennady Churilov C
Pavol Demitra C
Josef Vaek C
Jan Marek C
Nikita Klyukin C
Daniil Sobchenko C

Alexander Kalyanin RW
Andrei Kiryukhin RW
Pavel Snurnitsyn F

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