Hockey player died in plane crash 12 years ago Locomotive Ivan Tkachenko He was a wonderful person and an exceptional son, the player’s mother, Tatiana, told .
Exactly 12 years ago, on September 7, 2011, a plane with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board took off from Yaroslavl for a KHL match in Minsk. A few seconds after takeoff, the liner crashes to the ground and burns. Of the 45 people (37 passengers and 8 crew members), 44 were killed, including attacker Ivan Tkachenko.
Tkachenko provided material assistance to seriously ill children.
Everyone says he was a wonderful person. And his son was exceptional! I wish all mothers such a son! We are very badly without him, we miss him a lot! God brought them all together as one team. There, apparently, it is necessary! said Tatiana Tkachenko.
“Half a heart is missing!” Everything is hard! The memory is there, deeper, but the pain hasn’t gone away. She will be with us until the end. So many things have come to a halt for everyone: parents, brothers, sisters, grandfathers, grandmothers. Everything has changed in life. It became darker, – said the father of hockey player Leonid Tkachenko on the air of .
Throughout his career, Tkachenko, 31 at the time of his death, played for Lokomotiv and Neftekhimik. As part of the Russian national team, he became vice-world champion in 2002.
Source : MatchTV
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