A HELPING HAND

I would like to think of myself as someone who gives a helping hand. But I am not sure I would have done what some Siberian oil workers did. Their plane got stuck on the runway when temperatures fell to -52C, and the brake pads on the aircraft froze. So they got out of the plane and gave it a push.

It was probably not good aviation practice to do that. But the threat of being stuck in Siberia in those temperatures must have been a powerful incentive.

Walter Blotscher