People gather to commemorate the victims of a plane crash near ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl
People gather to commemorate the victims of a plane crash near an ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl September 8, 2011. Candles flickered beside mounds of red carnations at the stadium of one of Russia's top ice hockey teams on Thursday after almost the entire team was wiped out in a plane crash that killed 43 people. Fans and players across the world paid tribute to the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the day after the Soviet-designed Yak-42 passenger plane slammed into a river bank just outside Yaroslavl, 250 km (150 miles) north of Moscow. The placard reads, "Forever with us". REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)