[Regnum] Two planes with people on board were blown off the runway by a snowstorm in Finland. The Sweden Herald reported this on December 27.
Around 4:00 PM in Lapland, a passenger plane carrying 150 people and another aircraft carrying 10 people attempted to land at Kittilä Airport but were turned around by strong winds. Both planes crashed into a snowdrift. No one was injured.
Winter storm Hannes has hit Finland. Wind speeds are 25 m/s, with the strongest gusts at sea reaching up to 35 m/s.
Due to severe weather, more than 160,000 homes were left without power. Another 8,000 homes were without power on the Ã…land Islands. In the city of Tampere, an inflatable gym collapsed; no one was injured.
Yesterday, Magadan airport suspended operations for almost 24 hours due to adverse weather conditions. In Moscow, several flights were delayed for between one and five hours due to the bad weather