Say What?!: Passengers Help Push Russian Icebound Plane onto Runway

Joanne Bauer

Joanne Bauer

Published November 27, 2014 5:30 am
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IGARKO, Russia — Now that’s pitching in.

Dozens of Russian passengers climbed out of their aircraft to help push their icebound plane onto the runway in a town about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The temperature was — 47 degrees.

Some of the 74 passengers and seven crew members from a Katekavia charter operated by UTAir airlines from Igarka to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk were videotaped pushing the wings of a Tupolev-134 jet, apparently helping the plane reverse toward a runway.

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