RUSSIAN plane was given some unexpected assistance when frozen brakes meant it was unable to move on to the runway - several of its passengers.

When a Tu-134 due to fly from the Artic town of Ingarka to Krasnoyarsk, 800 miles to the south, got stuck when its chassis brakes froze, some of its passengers were apparently so desperate to get home they disembarked in temperatures as low as -52C and helped push.

An amateur video shows several dozen men pushing the plane by leaning on both wings until it moved.

Russian authorities, however, were not amused and prosecutors have launched an investigation into a possible breach of safety regulations.