Ground staff de ice; Turkish Airlines jet with water bottle
When a snowstorm swept across Turkey earlier this week, causing flight cancellations and hazardous road conditions, one airline’s method of de-icing an aircraft raised a few eyebrows.
A passenger on board the Turkish Airlines flight captured the moment workers used a bottle of water to remove ice from the aircraft’s wing.
Filmed at Sanliurfa Airport on January 10, the video showed the men trying to pour what could have been a bottle of de-icing liquid over the wing.
People were quick to poke fun at the airline’s “high-tech” method, with one asking if it was in the Boeing manual.
Turkish Airlines halted all flights from Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, its main hub, on Monday as heavy snow fall hit the city for a third full day, its chief executive said.
The snowstorm, which swept in on Friday night, forced the closure of the key Bosphorus shipping strait and led to sweeping flight cancellations, while hazardous roads left many drivers stranded in Istanbul, a city of 15 million people
