Posted on 12/29/2023 11:38:12 AM PST by Red Badger
A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia's far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said. Screenshot courtesy of NBC/Youtube Dec. 28 (UPI) -- While flying through Russia's far east, a Polar Airlines flight touched down unexpectedly on a frozen Kolyma river due to a pilot error early Thursday, the airline said. No injuries were reported.
VIDEO AT LINK............
According to a release from the Russian airline, flight YAP217 was on the route "Yakutsk-Zyryanka-Srednekolymsk," when the Antonov-24 aircraft landed off the runway of Zyryanka airport in the Yakutia region.
Created in 1959, the An-24 was designed for short- and medium-haul airlines.
According to Polar Airlines, 30 passengers and four crew members were on board the aircraft. The plane was not damaged.
"The territorial department of the Federal Air Transport Agency has ordered an investigation into this fact," the Polar Airlines statement reads.
"According to preliminary information, the cause of the aviation incident was an error by the crew in piloting the aircraft," a spokesperson for the Eastern Siberian transport prosecutor said in a statement.
Harrison does have that Mister Magoo reputation as s pilot.Any non celebrity would have lost their pilot license by now. John Travolta is another such pilot, but he doesn’t seem to keep having “difficulties” in the cockpit.
There is a very good book by Tim Tzouliadis called “The Forsaken.” It is about the thousands of Americans who were duped into going to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to work in the “Workers’ Paradise.” Most ended up being imprisoned or murdered by the Soviet government.
Polar Airlines lands on ice? What’s the problem?
Pilot watched to much Russian Ice Road Trucking.
To be serious maybe there was a section of Frozen River that had been cleared for trucking that looked like a runway, nice and straight, with snow piled on the sides from snow removal.
Co-pilot to Pilot: “Why is that boat on the runway?”............
The father of a friend of mine went with his family to the Soviet Union in 1930 because his father was assigned to a job there. Fortunately, the task he was assigned to do was completed, and they returned after about a year. After reading that book, I realized that the family narrowly avoided a horrific fate.
They were supposed to land on dirt..............
You sure about that?
Delta did this. They landed in SD at an Air Force base thinking they were in Rapid City.
https://apnews.com/general-news-9b779e8cb3d647649399f03c372a644e
The the USAF landed a C-17 at a municipal airport, thinking they were at Homestead AFB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi58Ds3Krgw
Northwest overflew Denver by 150 miles because the pilots dozed off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_188
Yes, there doesn’t appear to be a paved runway. If there was snow on the airfield it would kind of blend right into the snow on the river. If the river were plowed, it might be better than landing on frozen packed earth.
Reminds me of the Seaboard contract DC-8 with troops from Kadena landing at Marble Mountain airstrip rather than the intended Danang airfield.
They got stopped, but had to strip the plane to make sure they could take off in the heat and humidity.
They all look alike.....................
—”WHO CARES?”
Prove you are not a robot.
Especially with most lights out to deny the VC easy targeting.
There was a Brazilian airliner that crashed into the jungle because the pilots were too busy listening to the ball game and flew west instead of south...
I was in multiable water landings
He almost got a hole in one at Santa Monica airport
It’s a very good book. It was very critical of Joseph Davies, who in 1936 was appointed US ambassador to the USSR. He was married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, the General Foods heiress, and he was far more interested in living the high life than he was in doing his job.
Prove you’re not a dumb ass.
On a flight a few years later people were sitting in the aisle the whole flight including takeoff/landing.
I was astonished that the EXIT signs were in both Russian and English.
Name-calling, how childish.
Is that your best shot?
Most thinking Russian males, not on the take, left the country when they could.
Most of the remaining are half-breeds/half muzzie.
When the Russian Federation falls apart which side will you run to?
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