That is just awful!!! It's the biggest avia tragedy with Soviet-Russian athlets. Two previous ones took place: 1.in 1950, 11 ice hokey players were killed, 2. in 1979, 17 football players were killed, and now this one, #3. 26 players were killed, plus Lokomotiv staffs and the air crew.
The worst part is this tragedy became world famous because it hits the list of world accidents with athlets invloved. In fact the number of air accidents is too high in modern Russia. It makes me mad . Most of them are not internationally known.