Posted on 01/09/2023 10:37:48 AM PST by Red Badger
THIS is the shocking moment a plane door sprang open mid-air as panicked passengers feared they would be "blown out".
The pilot of the Russian flight was forced to make an emergency landing in icy -41C conditions as luggage was sucked out of the Antonov AN-26.
VIDEO AT LINK.............
Hats belonging to the 25 passengers flew off heads and vanished into the bone-chilling air after the rear door popped open soon after takeoff in one of the world’s coldest regions.
Footage shows the door wide open on the IrAero Antonov aircraft, which had taken off from Magan in the Siberian region Yakutia bound for Magadan on Russia’s Pacific coast.
The man filming the nightmare incident is heard swearing in shock at the open door behind him.
Another video from 112 news outlet showed the terrified passengers in the howling ice-cold wind with the rear door open.
A male passenger said: “A man sitting at the rear of the plane was nearly blown away.
“He had just unfastened his seat belt.
“And he was almost blown out of the plane."
The door, used to load cargo and luggage, is normally curtained off from the passengers at the back of the plane but was seen flapping wildly.
Despite the intense cold in the cabin during the drama, all passengers on board were "safe" as the pilot made a rapid emergency landing.
Passenger Sergei Lidrik, 33, from Magadan, said it took 15 minutes from a “loud pop” when the door blew open until the plane landed at the same airport they had just left.
He said: "People were shocked at first.
"The older women were frozen hard.
"People had their hats blown off. They were afraid their luggage had fallen out too, but most of it was in the nose of the plane.
"The men sitting in the back of the plane were freezing cold."
It is believed all the passengers were strapped in for takeoff and wearing coats.
An investigation is underway into the disturbing incident.
One aviation expert told The Insider that the twin-engine turboprop planes should no longer be used.
He said it was "little surprise" the locking system on the door had malfunctioned.
The Antonov AN-26 planes were introduced in the USSR in 1970 and stopped being manufactured in 1986.
Magan is eight miles from Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and capital of Yakutia region.
“Any democrats on board may unbuckle their seat belts and feel free to move around
the cabin...”
The Captain
Might have possibly been incompetence, but these planes are so old, and I doubt well maintained, metal fatigue of the latches and hinges could be a problem...............
There are several airlines that flew into the USSR but they had to fly to Moscow only. From there everyone had to fly Aeroflot. Government monopoly. My sister and brother in law went to central Russia in March a couple of years ago. Had some interesting stories about their flights.
Maybe an attempt by the FSB for another ‘accident’ of someone Little Pukin wants to get rid of.
They copied the Marines and their helicopters used as Marine One.
Actually, it's a practice that dates back to the days of radial engined aircraft where you didn't want the dirty exhaust to show on your nice paint job.
friend of mine had to fly Aeroflot once back in the day, he said you could see the cords coming thru the tires...
he was not happy
The FA who was (as she called it) “waving like a flag” while hanging onto the staircase bannister came to speak to my inflight training class. And I flew with another guy who had been in the downstairs galley when it happened and a 250 pound beverage cart flew across and smashed into him, crushing his forearm. He had a steel bar in his arm where the bone used to be.
I had a 1971 Gremlin that had a rusted out driver’s door latch and it finally wouldn’t shut tight and latch. We held it closed with rope for a while, an I finally fashioned a new locking post from a bolt and nuts inserted into the frame. Actually worked. We never took the car to 30,000 feet, though.
Well, they were already in Siberia...................
They didn’t have duct tape back then?.....................
It isn’t as if it’s lost luggage. I mean, they know where it went.
It will be found by some Siberian Native people and they will wonder.............
“Pay no attention to those cumulus clouds behind the curtain!”
“It’s missing an engine cover”
That’s a feature......optimizes engine temp. 🫡
I read the NTSB report on that flight, nice to learn more insight. Our CRM classes are really good since we can play/act out scenarios of different events and how we might/could have changed the outcome.
We had a gremlin - it’s kinda like being on a riding lawn mower at 65 mph
Aeroflop.
Not only does Putin live in your head, he's adding another wing.
When I was in the Navy, I took a Space A flight once from Pensacola to Dallas in an old C46 or similar, it has been decades. Anyway, the plane was on the way to graveyard, I sat on the drop down bench in the cockpit, they flew at about 3,000 feet, and the side cargo door kept popping open. The pilot and co-pilot took turns strapping a rope on and walking back to close the door. As a 20 or 21 year old, an interesting flight to say the least.
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