AIRPORT staff had to push a passenger plane by hand after the pilots reportedly missed their runway turn-off.

Video footage taken from inside the cabin shows ground crew reaching up to one of the wings as the 36-ton jet is wheeled back in the right direction.

3 Twenty ground crew push the jet back along the runway after it missed its turning Credit: AsiaWire

Another photo from the terminal shows a total of around 20 men clinging to both wings and pushing the Bombardier CRJ1000 in reverse.

Reports in Indonesia said the pilots missed their turning after landing at Tambolaka Airport in the southern East Nusa Tenggara province.

National airline Garuda Indonesia confirmed the bizarre event, saying the aircraft had not broken down but had to be pushed because it could not drive backwards.

Airline spokesman Ikhsan Rosan said: "The incident occurred today at Tambolaka Airport.

3 Video from inside the cabin shows the workers pushing the aircraft by the wing Credit: AsiaWire

3 Pilots missed the turn-off from the runway at Tambolaka Airport in Indonesia Credit: AsiaWire

"After the plane landed, it should have turned left towards the apron. The plane missed the turn slightly.

"There was no pushback tractor available, which is the thing that pushes and tugs aeroplanes back.

"So it was pushed by technicians and employees at the airport."

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The Bombardier CRJ1000 is 125ft long, can carry up to 104 passengers and has a maximum landing weight of 81,500 lb.

Garuda Indonesia uses the aircraft on its routes to and from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, near the capital Denpasar.

Earlier today we told how a street cleaner was almost killed by a slab of ice believed to have fallen from a jet approaching Heathrow.

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