THIS is the terrifying moment a man is mowed down by a 78-tonne Airbus airliner – leaving him with life-changing injuries.
Airport technician Rail Khasanov was preparing a Ural Airlines plane for take off when the aircraft rolled over him and crushed his legs.
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The pilot of the Airbus A320 failed to wait for him to move away from under the plane when he began taxiing at Koltsovo airport in Russia.
Horrifying CCTV footage showed the plane’s landing gear running over the technician’s leg, leaving him fighting for his life in an intensive care unit.
But the lucky man survived the freak accident.
Rail, whose leg was amputated at the hip, has now told of the terrifying moment he was crushed.
He revealed he felt his “bones burst” as the massive plane mowed him over.
The technician said: “A huge wheel drove along my leg and stopped. In the first few seconds, I thought it was a nightmare but I couldn’t wake up.
“I didn’t feel any pain at first because of the shock but then I felt my bones burst. I was fully conscious while I was lying under the plane for seven minutes.
“I was so thirsty because of the blood loss. In the ambulance, I managed to say what happened and then I passed out.”
Rail only regained consciousness five days later after surgeons induced a medical coma before performing an emergency amputation.
He joked: “I woke up and looked around and it didn’t look like heaven.
“I could see I was in intensive care with my mother next to my bed. I had no panic.
“I had known even while I was under the plane that my leg didn’t have a hope.
“But I was alive chatting, talking.”
Investigators later blamed the aircraft pilot for the injury and asked him to compensate Rail compensation.
Rail signed a pre-trial agreement with the pilot to receive £16,000.
He is still an employee of Ural Airlines and is preparing to be fitted with a prosthetic leg and expects to return to work – but not preparing planes for take off.
He said: “It’s sometimes hard enough on two legs. The company has promised they will find a job for me.
“I know I’ll have to learn something new.”
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