These guys?
Posted on 08/15/2019 6:13:27 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Ural Airlines A321 plane was taking off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport Thursday when it hit a flock of birds One of the engines caught fire while the other one spluttered and then stopped working, Russian media says Hero pilot Damir Yusupov brought the plane down in a cornfield, leaving 23 people with just minor wounds
In total, 23 of the 226 passengers and seven crew on board were sent to hospital for minor injuries, though only one - a 69-year-old woman - required further treatment.
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Miracle in the Corn Field, starring Tom Hanks, is now showing at the Cineplex One.
AFter landing in the corn field was popcorn coming out the jet exhaust? Too bad it didn’t hit a dairy farm they would have had butter for it.
Captain Sully-ovich to the rescue.
These guys?
Great flying.
This retired pilot salutes him.
Congrats to the pilot....
Good job, Damir.
I hope there aren’t 229 more of them.
Good landing: everybody walks away from the aircraft.
Great landing: the aircraft is still flight worthy.
Rarely can an aircraft survive a strike by a dozen or so people birds but 220+ getting sucked into the engines!??!
Unbelievable!
It is amazing how some people focus during an emergency while others may become confused or even inactive.
Training and experience can mitigate the adrenaline but it usually comes down to the individual. Unless you experience it in real life most never know.
Good job Captain Damir Yusupov!
AFter landing in the corn field was popcorn coming out the jet exhaust?
A friend that owned a farm in western Illinois had a powered hang glider crash in his corn, just across the fence from an airport.
They drove every piece of equipment available through the corn when the could have simply cut a few strands of wire.
The pilot was a neighbor and no way would he complain.
Take offs are optional, landings are not.
Good landing: everybody walks away from the aircraft.
Great landing: the aircraft is still flight worthy.
Very good!!!
Unbelievable!
I don’t believe everything on the internet either.
And the full-length title did not fit:
Miracle of the cornfield! Hero pilot safely belly-lands a flaming Russian jet carrying 233 people on farmland after a flock of birds got sucked into both engines during take-off
Hard to have exhaust coming out of engines that aren't running. ;-)
There, fixed it.
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