Chineke!!! Passengers in Russia had to push plane onto runway

Many of us, at one point or the other have had to push a truck stuck in mud or a car that refused to start. But a plane? Haba! As bad as Naija is, it has not happened. Holla Naija! But it happened in Russia!

Screenshot from the video of the passengers

On Tuesday in that country, passengers in the Arctic had to come out of an airplane to help push it to the runway. Chai!

Okay, before you start to think that it was a “push and start” plane, this is what actually happened.

The light aircraft with 74 oil workers and seven crew members was due to fly from the town of Ingarka to Krasnoyarsk when the plane’s chassis breaks literally got frozen to the ground.

It was -52 C outside and so the desperate passengers had to do what they could to get out of there. A phone video caught them pushing the plane by leaning on both wings.

The incident was funny to many but not to Russian authorities, who have launched an investigation into a possible breach of safety regulations.

The country’s Tass news agency quoted Oksana Gorbunova, senior adviser to the West Siberian transportation prosecutor as saying:

 “It would be funny if it didn’t pose a horrendous threat. People could have damaged the aircraft skin and the flaps”

He said the passengers were asked to leave the plane when it got stuck. When a tractor began towing the airliner, some of the passengers left a bus and tried to help move it.

He added: “The plane was towed, of course, because it would be physically impossible for people (to move it)”.