Photos of a miraculous emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow

[misskit]

On the morning of August 15, an Airbus A321 made an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow, after losing its engines in a collision with a flock of birds. The Ural Airlines flight had just taken off from Zhukovsky, en route for the Crimean city of Simferopol. All 233 people on board survived, though 29 people have been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.












https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/15/233-lives-saved

[Saint Willy]

Wow, that's pretty crazy. good piloting skills

[Luigi]

Plenty of fertilizer on board for them to use.

[bowie]

Yea, and that Sully movie's hitting the True TV circuits - seems birds and airplanes just don't mix

[Klondyke]

Wondering why nobody hasn't come with idea to provide a grid in front of the air inlets? (Anyway, I just applied for the patent...)

[fishlocker]

Yea right, like you been there and dummbed that.







aww, I sowwy.

[Klondyke]

No old-hand pilots...

Damir Yusupov

Born in Siberia, the 41-year-old Yusupov isn’t a typical career pilot with tens of thousands of flight hours under his belt. In fact, he has only racked up about three-thousand hours of flight time. That’s just twice the minimum amount required to become an aircraft commander – yet this proved to be no impediment to him when faced with a crisis.

Rejected from flight school on medical grounds in his teens, Yusupov trained as a lawyer instead. Not content to give up on his dream, he retrained as a pilot later, graduating with honors. His fellow cadets and colleagues describe him as calm, modest and professional – qualities which no doubt stood in his favor in a moment of peril.

Georgy Murzin

Yusupov’s 23-year-old co-pilot Georgy Murzin received his license just two years ago. He graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation in 2017 and was hired by Ural Airlines in 2018.

The young pilot had accumulated only 600 flight hours when he found himself in a situation no pilot ever wants to face.

https://www.rt.com/russia/466594-her...strike-russia/