KRASNODAR, August 5 An Airbus plane collided with a telescopic ladder at the Sochi airport, the transport prosecutor's office reported.
«»The Sochi Transport Prosecutor's Office, on behalf of the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office, is conducting an inspection in the field of the safety of the operation of air transport. The causes and circumstances of the incident are being established, and if there are grounds, the issue of the need to take prosecutorial response measures will be considered,» the supervisory authority specified.
According to the transport prosecutor's office, the day before, the plane of the airline «Northern Wind» was preparing to disembark passengers and collided with a telescopic ladder on the territory of Sochi International Airport.
Sochi International Airport's telegram channel reported that it was an Airbus A330-300 aircraft of Nordwind airlines flying from Nizhny Novgorod, and then along the route Sochi — Novosibirsk. The crew at about nine o'clock in the evening on August 4 allowed the air bridge to touch the wing and engine nacelle of the left engine.
According to the press service of the operator of the Kuban airports, Aerodinamika Group of Companies, the airline provided passengers with a reserve board and people took off on the route on the morning flight — at about 6:54, while waiting for passengers were placed at the hotel.