The Moscow Times
A fully loaded passenger flight departing from a Kamchatka settlement
to the region's capital was abandoned Thursday when the plane got stuck
in mud, local officials said.
The L-410 twin turboprop carrying 15 passengers and two crew members
sank into the mud at noon as it was taxiing for takeoff at the airport
in Ozernovsky, a settlement of about 2,450 people, the regional
transportation prosecutor's office said.
The plane, operated by the airline Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air
Enterprise, was preparing to make the 360-kilometer flight
to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
"According to preliminary data, the plane was taxiing from the
parking ramp to the runway when it got stuck in ground dampened
by rain," the transportation prosecutor's office said in a statement.
No one was injured. The landing gear of the plane, however, was damaged.
A vehicle was sent out to the plane to retrieve the passengers,
and they were placed on another plane to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Prosecutors were checking whether the incident was the result of any violations of safety rules.
In Kamchatka, the Far East of Russia, the plane with 11 passengers on board failed to take off after the chassis of the aircraft got stuck in the mud. The L-410 aircraft was supposed to fly from the village of Ust-Bolsheretsky to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The incident occurred at around midday local time (04:00 MSK), at Ozernovsky Airport, TLTnews.ru reports. According to officials, the plane, when turning on the runway, stuck in the mud that had been caused by rain. An Ural vehicle had to pull the aircraft out from the mud. During these manipulations, one chassis of the plane broke. As a result, the aircraft was sent for repairs.
All passengers were delivered to the airport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by another plane.
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