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Moscow Runway Excursion


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Contact photographer Oleg Drul

What: Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-96 en route from Goa India to Moscow Russia
Where: Moscow
When: Feb 16th 2012
Who: 265 passengers
Why: After making a safe landing at Moscow airport, while the plane was navigating the runway, its main gear went off the snowy runway.

Passengers disembarked from the stranded plane on to terra firma via mobile stairs.

There were no injuries. The plane had to be towed, tying up the runway until it was removed.

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