---
title: "Watch a Russian Driver Nearly Crash Into This Landing Plane"
description: "Landing comes with plenty of dangers. Errant Ladas aren't usually one of them. "
date: "2016-09-28"
modified: "2016-09-28"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5360/watch-a-russian-driver-nearly-crash-into-this-landing-plane"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Crash"
  - "Lada"
  - "Planes"
  - "russia"
---

# Watch a Russian Driver Nearly Crash Into This Landing Plane

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When you hear that a plane and a car nearly collided while the aircraft was landing, if you’re anything like us at The Drive, you probably picture some sort of emergency-landing-on-a-highway scenario, or a situation where a plane runs into one of the many [authorized wheeled vehicles usually found scurrying around the tarmac at airports](<https://www.thedrive.com/video/5190/ride-along-next-to-the-largest-airliner-in-the-world-as-it-takes-off-from-lax>). What you probably don’t picture is a random c[ar plowing across a runway ahead of a plane](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3811350/Running-bit-late-Bizarre-moment-motorist-takes-shortcut-RUNWAY-nearly-gets-hit-plane.html>) in the split second before it lands, all but guaranteeing a collision.

That, presumably, is because you don’t live in Russia, a magical land where anything can happen when it comes to transportation. [Barges drag trucks away](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5300/watch-this-truck-slowly-slide-to-its-doom>). [Fighter jets bomb ice dams](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3098/watch-these-fighter-jets-bomb-an-ice-dam-in-russia>). And Ladas suddenly appear on empty runways as pilots try to land their Cessnas.

According to the *Daily Mail*, the pilot of the single-engine Cessna 172 was coming in for a landing at a quiet airfield in the town of Bolgar, which is located in the semi-autonomous region of Russia known as Tatarstan, when a silver Lada largus popped out from an access road and drove straight into the plane’s path. Luckily for everyone involved, the pilot accessed his or her reserves of Chuck Yeager-esque cool and hopped the small plane over the SUV without so much as a peep of concern.

Well done, good sir or madam. We at *The Drive* can only assume that all those years [playing photo subject for America's finest aviatiors](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LzZ1ORjSjk>) helped you hone those catlike reflexes. And here's hoping you gave that Lada driver a severe ass-whupping stern talking-talking once you were on the ground.

https://youtube.com/embed/36lKqPGIgRI

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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