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 Chinese airline passengers forced to push broken jet off runway
Chinese airline passengers forced to push broken jet off runway
Said one of the pushers, "Thank God it was only a 20-ton medium-sized aeroplane". picked by tigertony 2 months ago
tags passengers push airplane jet Chinese
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 2manyuse...
2 months ago
Thanks. I had seen the image but didn't know the story behind it.
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 suebe
2 months ago
Uh...they couldn't tow the plane? How bizarre.
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 BrownTro...
2 months ago
If it were an American airline, they would have charged the passengers a "fee" for pushing the plane.
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 Kevertje
2 months ago
« suebe : Uh...they couldn't tow the plane? How bizarre.
I'm guessing there weren't enough passengers left to push the tug as well.
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 Kevertje
2 months ago
Well, it seems my joke wasn't that far from the truth: UPI article
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 shuallyo
2 months ago
I heard they were trying to pop the clutch due to an ignition failure.:P
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