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Aircraft passengers 'push-start' frozen plane in Russia's Arctic

Shift workers put muscle behind the wings of a plane in Russia's Arctic as lubricant reportedly freezes in aircraft chassis


Biting winds and a temperature of -52C proved no deterrent for a group of shift workers in Russia's Arctic - who decided to get out and push when their plane froze to the ground.
Oil in the aircraft's chassis reportedly iced up, seizing its brakes, so the burly men climbed out of their seats and put some muscle behind the wings.

A video filmed on a mobile phone shows the passengers crying "Davay, davay!" ("Come on! Come on!") as they help guide the plane toward a runway in Igarka, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
"It's -52C here," an employee at Igarka airport told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "The oil froze in the chassis bearings. These temperatures are the limit at which an aircraft can be used, it's very cold."
The employee said the plane was towed onto the runway but the passengers, who had been asked to disembark to make it lighter, were determined to lend a hand: "There were about 70 of them, they leaned on the wing."

The Tu-134 plane was chartered for Arctic workers flying south to warmer climes. Many people working in mines and the oil and gas industry in Russia's Far North do so on shift patterns of several weeks on and then several weeks off.

The video - titled "Shift workers want to get home!" - spread quickly across news sites and social media on Wednesday.

However, prosecutors were not amused and said a probe had been launched to establish whether health and safety rules were violated