VIDEO: Planes Dodge Tornadoes in Russia
Airlines & Airports Donald Wood August 30, 2017

This is one story you're going to want to share because it's almost unbelievable.
Nobody likes flying in bad weather, so imagine the shock these passengers experienced when they looked out the windows and saw not just one but several, waterspout tornadoes.
As one aircraft, operated by Aeroflot, approached its destination of Sochi, a Russian city on the Black Sea and the most recent host city of the Winter Olympics, a passenger onboard shared an image on Instagram taken from the window of the aircraft which clearly shows three waterspouts to the left of the aircraft.
Amateur video from the ground also shows an aircraft flying past three waterspouts.
VIDEO: Plane filmed landing in Sochi with three tornadoes right behind it https://t.co/I387UYJt3f pic.twitter.com/oFrtL9SEK1
— RT (@RT_com) August 30, 2017
In total, nine flights were delayed due to the unfavourable weather conditions and several other planes were diverted to nearby cities Anapa and Krasnodar.
This is the second time in as many weeks that waterspouts were spotted near the Russian city. Last week, two tornadoes were also reported in the Black Sea.
Brian Simpson contributed to this story.
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