‘I felt my bones cracking’: Airport worker recounts terrifying moment he was mowed down by a 78-ton Airbus – and tells his survival story

This is the horrific moment a 78-tonne Airbus plane mowed down an airport technician.

Rail Khasanov said he felt his “bones crack” as 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.

CCTV footage captured the moment the Airbus 320 rolled over Rail while preparing the Ural Airlines plane for departure.

He was stuck under the wheel for seven minutes, but managed to message his mother on social media saying, “Mom, I got hit by a plane.”

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 put into an induced coma.

He is now undergoing rehab at the Irina Volkova Clinic and said: “I remember everything perfectly.

‘A huge wheel ran past my leg and stopped. For the first few seconds I thought it was a nightmare, but I couldn’t wake up.

‘At first I didn’t feel any pain from the shock, but then I felt my bones crack.’

He added: “Paramedics arrived and called an ambulance.

‘I was fully conscious while lying under the plane for seven minutes, and I managed to write to my mother: “Mom, I’ve been hit by a plane.”

‘Then I wanted to sleep. I was so thirsty because of the blood loss. In the ambulance I was able to tell what had happened and then I fainted.’

He was put into a coma and… regained consciousness five days later in intensive care after surgeons performed an emergency amputation.

He joked: “I woke up and looked around, but it didn’t look like heaven. I could see that I was in intensive care with my mother next to my bed. I didn’t panic.

He is now undergoing rehabilitation at the Irina Volkova Clinic and said: ‘At first I didn’t feel any pain from the shock, but then I felt my bones crack’

Rail is still an employee of Ural Airlines and is preparing to get a prosthetic leg and expects to return to work, but does not prepare aircraft for take-off

‘I already knew when I was under the plane that my leg had no hope anymore.

“But I was still alive, chatting, talking.”

Investigators later blamed the aircraft commander for the injury and ordered him to pay compensation to Rail.

Rail signed a preliminary 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 boyfriend.

‘Who needs a man convicted of a crime and then unable to fly and work? Their whole lives would be ruined.”

Rail is still an employee of Ural Airlines and is preparing to get a prosthetic leg and expects to return to work, but does not prepare aircraft for take-off.

He said: ‘It’s hard enough on two legs sometimes. The company has promised to find me a job.

“I know I’ll have to learn something new.”