The plane crash that wiped out the Russian hockey team a few months ago was caused by a pilot error and the co-pilot was taking an illegal substance. The Yak-42 plane was in "good order" before it crashed September 7th shortly after takeoff from Yaroslavl, Russia. One of the pilots accidentally applied the breaks too early on takeoff which made the plane rise too steeply. It crashed 150 miles away from the airport in Yaroslavl. "Everything was fine with the time of the flight, the weather, and fuel", said an investigator from the Interstate Aviation Committee. To make matters worse the co-pilot of the plane was on phenobarbital, which was found in his blood after the crash. It is sad to see that pilot error was the cause for this horrific crash. If everything was executed correctly and the co-pilot was not on drugs the 44 members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team would be alive today.
*http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/russian-hockey-teams-plane-crash-caused-by-pilot-error-110211
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