By Tim Stickings For Mailonline and Reuters
Published: 13:02 BST, 7 May 2019 | Updated: 13:02 BST, 7 May 2019
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A Boeing 737 jet carrying more than 100 people slid off a runway as it landed during a snowstorm in Russia.
The NordStar plane with 101 passengers and six crew members on board slipped off course in the city of Norilsk yesterday.
The airline said no-one had been hurt and that passengers had been able to leave the plane by themselves.
The plane was not damaged, NordStar said, as they blamed the accident on the poor weather conditions.
A Boeing 737 jet carrying more than 100 people slid off a runway as it landed during a snowstorm in Russia yesterday (stock image, a Boeing 737 used by NordStar)
The crew were hindered by 60mph winds and a snowstorm which reduced visibility, the airline said.
According to Russian news agency TASS the plane was on its way from Krasnoyarsk to Norilsk, both cities in Siberia.
The alarming incident in Norilsk was unrelated to the air disaster in Moscow on Sunday in which 41
