Pilots responsible for crash of ice hockey team flew plane illegally: investigators


MOSCOW (Reuters) - The pilots of a plane that crashed last year wiping out a professional Russian ice hockey team had no right to be flying it, investigators into the disaster have said.

Vladimir Markin, a spokesperson for the committee formed to investigate the disaster, told reporters that the two pilots were flying the Yak-42 plane "illegally", Russia's Ria Novosti news agency reported.

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