Investigators probing the Yakovlev Yak-42 crash at Yaroslavl have revealed the presence of an apparent braking force on the aircraft during the take-off run, but have yet to understand its origin. The ...

A chartered Russian jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Tunoshna, Russia, on Wednesday, killing most of the members of the elite Russian hockey team Lokomotiv. The flight was on its way to Minsk, ...

Russian investigators have determined that a pilot of the Yakovlev Yak-42 which crashed on departure from Yaroslavl had inadvertently been braking during the take-off roll. The inquiry found that the ...

The pilots of a Yak-42 that crashed in Russia last year and killed 44 including the Russian hockey team Lokomotiv were flying illegally, Russian investigators said this week. According to Vladimir ...

The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) government has replaced three of its top generals after it was discovered that 22 bodies from the May 2003 Yak-42 military plane crash were given to the wrong ...

MOSCOW -- All three engines on a Russian jet that slammed into a riverbank were operating up until the moment of the crash and the plane's stabilizer and flaps were in a proper position for takeoff, ...

Investigators inspect the tail section of the crashed Yak-42 aircraft as a IL-76 plane lands at Tunishna airport outside Yaroslavl September 9, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] MOSCOW - An expert responsible ...

After the Sept. 7 crash killed 43 people, including the members of a top Russian hockey team, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also announced he will personally oversee the crash investigation. Sep ...

Phenobarbital, which has a negative impact on the nervous system, was found in the blood of the second pilot of avion MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) — The Yak-42 airplane was fully in good order ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The September crash of a Russian Yak-42 airliner that killed 45 people was caused by pilot error, aviation investigators said Wednesday. Chairman Alexey Motozov of the CIS ...