13 Sep 2011

Last air crash survivor loses battle

5:59 am on 13 September 2011

The only member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team to survive last week's air crash in western Russia has succumbed to burns.

Alexander Galimov, and a member of the crew were found alive after the Yak-42 jet carrying the team to a match in Belarus came down on the banks of a river shortly after take-off last Wednesday, killing 43 people.