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Yakutia Boeing Skids off slick Runway

What: Yakutia Boeing 737-86-N en route from Rimini Italy to Rostov Russia
Where: Rostov Airport
When: Dec 1, 2012
Who: 120 aboard
Why: The Yakutia flight was landing at Rostov Airport and skid off the runway when the pilot applied brakes.

Passengers disembarked safely with no injuries.

It took half an hour to tow the plane the ten yards back to the runway with a 20 ton truck.

No injuries were reported. Passengers exited the plane via “ladder.” (Possibly a mistranslation!) The plane stopped on soft ground off the runway while it was raining.

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