Russian Plane Crash: Last Hockey Player Dies

Article excerpt from the International Business Times

Russian Plane Crash: Last Hockey Player Dies🙁

The only member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team to survive a plane crash in Russia last week died in a hospital Monday.

Alexander Galimov was one of two survivors when a chartered Yak-42 jet crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from the Tunoshna airport. The other survivor was the plane’s flight engineer, Aleksandr Sizov, who is receiving treatment and expected to recover.

After the accident, Galimov had severe burns over 80 percent of his body and doctors had put him in a medically induced coma when he reached a hospital.

“Despite therapy that included all modern treatment methods, Alexander Galimov died in the morning from burns,” Moscow’s Vishnevsky surgical institute said in a statement on its Web site.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/212261/20110912/lokomotiv-yaroslavl-player-dies-russia-plane-crash.htm