“It's like they're shooting from anti-aircraft guns.” Kalinichenko remembered how lightning struck the Spartak plane

January 20, 2022, 15:12 Moscow time

Former Spartak midfielder Maxim Kalinichenko told how the Red-White plane got into extreme weather conditions.

“There was a flight when lightning hit the plane, flashes began. It was we who just flew from the training camp with Spartak. Someone took a beer for a flight, ahead of the weekend – it was possible. As soon as they took off, and then there was a clapping in two wings: “Bam! Bam! There were flashes, as if they were hitting you with anti-aircraft guns. Everyone put down their drinks and books, calmly put their hands on their knees for an hour and a half and flew with their eyes open.

The flight attendant was still ahead. They ask him if everything is ok. And he turns around, his face is white, says in a trembling voice: “Yes, yes, everything is fine.” When you see these flashes, you don’t know that the plane is equipped with a lightning rod. But I don’t think it was a regular situation, because the flight attendant got scared too. I saw that it’s not that simple. Everyone was scared, someone started to pray, ”Kalinichenko said in a video on the YouTube channel Gleb Cherniavsky.