Aviation Ping!.....................
Well if Sully could do it on a non-frozen river...
Air crew having a 3 vodka dinner again? Drinking the coolant?
Vodka , it’s what’s for breakfast , lunch and dinner
The Kolyma valley is where millions died in Gulag camps during Stalin's purges.
Next flight, bring parachute, lifejacket and a good pair of ice skates, just to play it safe!
WHO CARES?
We’ve got 99 problems in THIS country and what happens to Russian airliners sure as hell isn’t one of them.
Looks like their airport runway is a sandbar next to the river. How far away did they land, is it blown out of proportion with the Russia bad group?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Zyryanka+Airport/@65.7456156,150.8923615,4757m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x5bd6955b44d9738b:0x96c639997713ba9!8m2!3d65.7403796!4d150.8985596!16s%2Fm%2F0wk7j3x?entry=ttu
A full-vodka landing?
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.
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.
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...
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.
Their first clue should have been no visible runaway marker lights.
Back in the 70’s, a commercial airliner accidentally landed at the Troutdale, Oregon airport which is about 5 miles east of Portland International. IIRC, both pilots were terminated soon thereafter.
Then they had to figure out how to get it off the 5,300 foot runway
Runway...frozen river. It’s easy to make such a mistake. It happens to all of us. Once, I turned onto a roadway and discovered it was river, or maybe it was a train track. I truly can’t remember. Oh, never mind. That never happened. Although once as a teen and on an extremely foggy night I turned onto the incorrect road when heading home.
Really though, how does a pilot make such a mistake? Between computers and pilot experience one would think that error would be impossible to make.
Now that I’ve commented and in the great FR tradition of posting first and reading the article later, I’ll go back and read the full article.