Watch Dozens of Passengers Help Push a Frozen Russian Plane
Though it sounds like a punchline of a joke, scores of passengers at an airport in Igarka, Russia, located about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, tried to push a frozen aircraft that was stuck on the tarmac on Wednesday. It wasn't an easy task. The New York Times reports that the temperature in Igarka was -47.2F -44C and the aircraft, a Tupolev-134 jet, weighed 70-tonnes. Oksana Gorbunova, a spokeswoman for the West Siberia Transportation Prosecutor, told Tass news agency "In order to deliver the plane to the taxiway, the passengers were invited to leave the plane and move to a bus parked nearby. After that, some of them arbitrarily left the bus and approached the plane trying to assist with the use of physical force.", A video of the mission was recorded and uploaded to YouTube where it quickly went viral. Though there have been conflicting reports on why the plane broke down  and who was responsible for the mishap  the transportation prosecutor told the New York Times in a statement that the aircraft's braking system had frozen and another key part had stalled. The statement added that prosecutors "will assess the legality of the actions of all those involved.", NYT