Russian pilot has a pet not everyone can bear

Aviation personnel at the Oreshkovo airfield in Russia's Kaluga region, some 200 Kilometres south-west of Moscow, have a special pet living right in a cordoned off area of an airfield - a three-year-old brown bear named Mansur. Most of the pilots and aviation engineers participate in raising Mansur but private pilot Andrei Ivanov's input cannot be exaggerated. Ivanov is the only person who can enter Mansur's cage and play with the bear without risk to life and limb.