Originally Posted by
woody125
My Russian friend Zhenya would tell me if he read this, "meh, maybe a Boeing or Airbus would be damaged by pushing it but a Tupolov can handle this and oh so much more."
He might be right...
He likely is right. The airplane was a Tu-134. Say what one wants about the comfort, my experience of the Tupolevs is that they are indeed quite solid, built in the days before carbon fiber and the like.