A group of Siberian oil workers are making international headlines for pushing their plane to free it from ice – allowing it to take flight.

The aircraft, a Tupolev-134 plane, was stuck because the pilot forgot to take off the parking brake, which froze up after the temperature dropped to minus 61 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday morning, prosecutors said.

“Due to the low air temperatures, the chassis’s brake system froze and a tow truck was unable to move the plane onto the taxiway to carry out the flight,” they said in a statement.

“The passengers on board got out of the plane and started pushing it onto the taxiway.”

Many of the passengers, eager to get home, got out and lent a helping hand so they could leave Igarka, a Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, for the regional capital of Krasnoyarsk, Agence France-Presse reported.

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