Manual de-icing at Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow

Who needs high-tech de-icing trucks, heated glycol sprays, or even basic common sense when you have one man, one cone, and an unbreakable Slavic work ethic?
Why waste millions on fancy gear when you can just send Sergei out there to lovingly hand-scrub the ice off a 70-ton flying machine like it’s his grandmother’s kitchen floor?
Truly, aviation safety has never looked so... intimate.

Fly with confidence — just maybe bring a hairdryer next time, you know, just in case.