I was standing next to the taxiway in Gateick one morning inabout 2003/4 when the Russian National Team aeroflot aircraft was leaving. It had brought the team from (I think) Dynamo Mscow to play Arsenal. As it taxi'd up the strip the front wheel mounting collapsed and the nose hit the tarmac.
Everybody had to evacuate down the chutes.
It was an old Tupolyev 154 or something similar.
A friend of mine flew out of east Berlin to Turkey on holiday with aeroflot. He swore never again!! That was when the Soviet Union was still running things but apparently they haven't improved much.