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This is the horrifying moment a 78-tonne Airbus plane mows down an airport technician.
Rail Khasanov said he felt his “bones burst” when the wheels of the huge plane rolled and crushed his legs at Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The 22-year-old suffered life-changing injuries in the horrific incident and had to have his right leg amputated at the hip.
CCTV footage captured the moment the Airbus 320 rolled onto Rail while preparing the Ural Airlines plane for take-off.
He was trapped under the wheel for seven minutes, but managed to message his mother on social media to say: “Mom, I got hit by a plane.”
Rail Khasanov said he felt his “bones burst” when the wheels of the huge plane rolled over and crushed his legs at Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The 22-year-old suffered life-changing injuries in the horrific incident and had to have his right leg amputated at the hip.
Rail fainted in an ambulance while being rushed to hospital and placed in an induced coma.
Now she is in rehabilitation at the Irina Volkova clinic and said: “I remember everything perfectly.”
‘A huge wheel passed by my leg and stopped. In the first seconds I thought it was a nightmare but I couldn’t wake up.
“At first I didn’t feel any pain due to shock, but then I felt like my bones were bursting.”
He added: “The paramedics arrived and called an ambulance.
“I was fully conscious while lying under the plane for seven minutes and managed to write to my mother: ‘Mom, I got hit by a plane.’
Then I wanted to sleep. He was very thirsty due to blood loss. In the ambulance I managed to tell what happened and then I fainted.”
He put him in a coma and He regained consciousness five days later in intensive care, after surgeons performed an emergency amputation.
He joked: “I woke up and looked around and it didn’t look like paradise.” I could see that I was in intensive care with my mother at my bedside. I didn’t panic.
She is now undergoing rehabilitation at the Irina Volkova Clinic and said: “At first I didn’t feel any pain due to shock, but then I felt like my bones were bursting.”
Rail remains an employee of Ural Airlines and is preparing to have a prosthetic leg fitted and hopes to return to work, but he is not preparing the planes for takeoff.
‘I knew even while I was under the plane that my leg was hopeless.
“But I was alive chatting, talking.”
Investigators later blamed the plane’s commander for the injury and ordered him to pay compensation to Rail.
Rail signed a pre-trial agreement with the pilot to receive £16,000.
He said, ‘What else could I do? He has a family, children, a mortgage, a loan, a friend.
‘Who needs a man to be sentenced for a crime and then not be able to fly or work? All their lives would be ruined.
Rail remains an employee of Ural Airlines and is preparing to have a prosthetic leg fitted and hopes to return to work, but he is not preparing the planes for takeoff.
He said: “Sometimes it’s quite difficult to be on two legs.” The company has promised that they will find me a job.
“I know I’ll have to learn something new.”