Terrifying moment passenger jet carrying 179 passengers skids through mud after coming in to land on icy runway in Lithuania

This is the moment a passenger jet carrying 179 passengers pulled off a terrifying landing on a muddy runway after touching down on ice in Lithuania.

Startling video showed a massive Airbus A320 careering across the tarmac after making a daring landing at Vilnius airport after a two hour journey from the Italian city of Bergamo on Saturday.

The jet, owned by Lithuanian company Avion Express, tried desperately to steady itself as an explosion of mud and water buffeted the plane, forcing birds…