A Yakovlev Yak - 42 passenger aircraft carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team crashed on takeoff , just outside Yaroslavl , Russia .
Vasyunov was killed on September 7 , 2011 in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash .
A Yakovlev Yak - 42 passenger aircraft carrying nearly Vasyunov 's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lokomotiv team crashed on takeoff , just outside Yaroslavl , Russia .
Vasyunov was killed on September 7 , 2011 in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash .