Passengers take plane trouble into their own hands, push plane themselves

Passengers take plane trouble into their own hands, push plane themselves
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When extreme temperatures left a plane stuck on the runway, passengers took matters into their own hands — literally.

The Russian passenger plane was heading to Krasnoyark's Yemelyanovo airport with 74 passengers. Oksana Gorbunova, senior assistant to the transport prosecutor in West Siberia, told The Independent that the plane's brake system was jammed, thanks to the cold.

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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.