KIEV, Ukraine — You may have had to push a car to get it going, but have you ever tried pushing a plane? That arduous task presented itself to passengers on a UTair flight in Russia this week after their ride got stuck in ice.
Passengers in Igarka, a small town some 100 miles north of the Arctic circle in the country’s Krasnoyarsk region, had to push-start their plane after it became frozen when temperatures there plunged to a frigid minus 59 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday.
Seventy-four oil workers and seven crew members were set to fly the 30-ton Tupolev-134 airliner from …read more
Source: Mashable
