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Little solace to the families and friends of those lost one year ago, Russian investigators charged a former airline executive Thursday in connection with last September’s devastating plane crash that saw 44 people killed, including most members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team.

Vadim Timofeyev, former deputy director of now-defunct Yak Service Airlines, has been charged with “a violation of the rules for transport safety and operation of air transport” for allowing two unqualified pilots to fly the plane that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all but one on board on Sept. 7, 2011.

On Thursday, investigative committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters that Timofeyev was supposed to ensure that crew members were qualified and their training complete, but instead allowed the pilots to fly the aircraft “illegally.”

According to a http://en.sledcom.ru/actual/149998InvestigativeCommittee of the Russian Republic report published online Thursday, the Yak-42’s captain, Andrei Solomentsev, was flying on “forged documents” and co-pilot Igor Zhevelov, had not finished his requalification exam to the plane.

A Sportsnet Magazine report published last December also noted that investigators a found a “banned drug” in the co-pilot’s blood, a drug used to treat a neurological disorder that causes weakness in the hands and feet.

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Guest Gumballthechewy

I wasn't. For some reason most Canuck fans felt like Pavol didn't do quite enough here for anybody to commemorate his death the way that, say, Rick Rypien's death was. Pavol (who was a star player and a national hero in Slovakia who died in the worst tragedy in hockey history) barely got mentioned while Rypien (an "enforcer" whose most remembered moment in the NHL was attacking a fan while getting kicked out of a game and who took his own life) got the whole memorial treatment by the Canuck organisation. Strange.

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