Russia orders investigation after plane skids off runway
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Russian investigators are looking into an incident in which a passenger aircraft operated by national carrier Aeroflot skidded off a runway in the Western Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Transport investigators said Wednesday that the Airbus A-320 overshot the runway by five meters after landing at Khrabrovo airport in a snowstorm late Tuesday.
All 174 passengers and crew were rescued during an emergency evacuation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Aeroflot declined to comment on the reasons for the incident until it had completed its own investigation, according to a representative quoted by Russian news agency TASS.
Photographs posted on social media by passengers after the incident showed the plane nose-down in the snow. Passenger Andrey Zeigarnik said in a Facebook post that the pilot gave no warning of any problems before the landing.