jap,tragedija.

lizzy i agree with your latest comment. i will not comment anymore but just one short statement: my last comment on this tragedy was deleted by the webmaster of amigos who logically reads all the comments to avoid abuses. he or she deleted my comments without a logical reason, it is just mentioned "deleted for other reasons". well, it seems like to live in the USSR in the 50's when it was impossible to write any personal thoughts. Amigos still need to develop a kind of perestroika. i am sure i will happen again to be banned, so the so called "other reasons".....

;( it's so sad. a whole hockey team died. and our all star and legend Karlis Skrastins. ;( how can such things happen to good people?

@ Lizzy... Yes, I have heard this, it has been a very sad summer for all of international hockey :(

Walter, don't be a drama queen! This blog is actually about a tragedy and the death of a team of hard working sportsmen, including one that is already strongly missed and mourned in Latvia. Do you know he had 2 children and his wife was expecting the third? And who knows what are the families and friends of the rest of the team going through? Therefore I didn't think it was appropriate to continue discussing your experiences and thoughts about bad service in planes. Be reasonable! Those you can tell to me personally but not on this blog!

sorry my name is walter not rob....or....you don't like to talk with me anymore????

You know, Rob, maybe you have heard of this saying but since rather recently another one of the legendary hockey players died too early, then people now are saying like this:
"First Zoltoks, now Skrastins.. perhaps they are picking out the star team up there"

Seriously? Topulev? How are they ever allowing them to be anywhere near airfields nowadays?

i do agree with lizzy. this is the third air accident in one month in the region. the russian civil aviation still continue to let using old planes from the 60's and 70's (yak and antonov) without any security standards. once i flew to sofia in BG with an old tupolev...well...the cabin was made of wood and the seats were like in the tram, two in front and two behind. i couldn't believe it. the first class ambience was divided by a strong wooden door (not  light curtains) so that the socialist belief could show to the travellers how nice is to fly in first class as members of the nomenklatura of the communist party.

So... He was among the poor people? When I was reading the news, it was still not clear. A friend of mine said that our neighbour (Russia) should once and for all start thinking about their people and stop using old and potentially dangerous equipment (so many examples, especially this year: ferries, planes... you name it).