On March 27, 1968, Gagarin was killed in an air crash during a training flight.
Not the happiest choice of phrase to describe an air crash, perhaps, but there you are.
With an air crash, he explains, a team is assigned to investigate the incident and identify the cause.
Angelo d'Arrigo, the Italian hang-glider known as the "Human Condor" who was killed in an air crash in March, was posthumously given the alternative sportsperson's award.
In 1958 tragedy struck when eight players were killed in an air crash at Munich after competing for the European Cup against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
He starts at an advantage: he is not Jaroslaw Kaczynski, his predecessor and twin brother of the late president, Lech Kaczynski, who died in an air crash in Russia last year.
But on the morning of the election, Farage was involved in an air crash caused by the UKIP election banner the plane was towing getting caught in the plane's tail fin.
Her eldest son, Prince William, a pilot, died in a crash at an air show in 1972.
An air ambulance went to the crash site, as well as two land ambulances, but the boy was confirmed dead at the scene.
One Saturday while the boss was away his deputy made major changes to the paper to report a train crash and an air disaster, and reasonably expected to be given a pat on the back for his efforts.
If true, that would rule out an in-flight explosion as the cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters.
CNN: Brazilian air force says debris was not from Air France crash
Four inspectors from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are at the crash scene carrying out an inquiry.
With mounting physical evidence only telling them what it wasn't, air crash investigators were left to analyze the various ways a 747, after an uneventful takeoff on a clear summer night, could crash so horribly.
CNN: Six months later, still no answer to TWA Flight 800 mystery
The Egyptian authorities have suspended all hot air balloon flights near Luxor and launched an investigation following the deaths of 19 tourists in a crash.
BBC: Egypt suspends Luxor balloon flights after deadly crash
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