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Delayed Passengers Stage Breakout
Several passengers on board an S7 (former Siberian) airline flight forced their way out of a grounded aircraft after they were kept waiting on board during a five-hour delay last Friday.

Passengers of the 1166 Volgograd - Moscow flight were initially held up for 90 minutes in Volgograd due to poor weather conditions. The decision was then made to move the passengers from their Boeing aircraft to a Tu-154M, in order to combine flight 1166 with a second flight which had been due to fly earlier that day. Conditions on board were cramped as this second aircraft was diverted into Nizhniy Novgorod airport after being unable to land in Moscow.

The warm weather in Nizhniy Novgorod meant temperatures inside the cabin topped 40 degrees as passengers were kept waiting in the aircraft without any information about the delay or the expected departure time.

After a five-hour wait in the sweltering heat, exhausted passengers took matters into their own hands and forcibly exited the airplane. One passenger is reported to have sustained a head injury as he fell from the plane to the runway and a further passenger lost consciousness as she left the plane and was driven away by airport security.

A source at the airline S7 told The Moscow News that the blame lay firmly with Nizhniy Novgorod airport: "The airport was crammed with planes and, at that point, the local airport facilities couldn't accept the majority of passengers."

The current state of Russian airports is of growing concern among the airlines using them.

Air India would have done something like this. Quite capable of such things.

HAWK21M · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject:

What type was the Boeing.
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