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Fifteen years since the Yaroslavl air tragedy that killed three Czech world champions

From iDNES · () Czech

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  • A Yak-42 crashed shortly after takeoff in Yaroslavl 15 years ago, killing 44 of the 45 people aboard.
  • The victims included Czech world champions Josef Vaลกรญฤek, Karel Rachลฏnek and Jan Marek, as well as Slovak forward Pavol Demitra.
  • The tragedy remains associated with the phrase โ€œNever forget.โ€

Sept. 7 remains one of the darkest dates in hockey history. Fifteen years ago, a Yak-42 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff in Yaroslavl, Russia.

There were 45 people aboard, and only one ultimately survived. Among those killed were Czech world champions Josef Vaลกรญฤek, Karel Rachลฏnek and Jan Marek, along with Slovak forward Pavol Demitra.

From the beginning, the tragedy was linked to a simple phrase: โ€œNever forget.โ€ It still holds.

Never forget.

· Unattributed remembrance sloganThe phrase became associated with the hockey tragedy and its continuing remembrance.
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