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“A Russian pilot has been hailed as a hero after he successfully crash-landed a passenger plane in a cornfield after birds were sucked into both engines, causing them to fail.

The Ural Airlines A321 plane was taking off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport on Thursday morning bound for Crimea when the birds flew across the runway, causing one engine to burst into flames and the other to stop.

Pilot Damir Yusupov, 41, radioed the airport asking to make an emergency landing but was forced to ditch into a cornfield a mile away after realising he was not going to make it.

Yusupov brought the plane down with no power in either engine and with the landing gear retracted.

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…”

https://mol.im/a/7359351



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crash-landed a passenger plane in a cornfield
It's probably a better idea to make an off-airport landing, than a crash landing. Razz



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Pilot Damir 'Sully' Yusupov, 41, radioed the airport, 'We're gonna be in the cornfield!'
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What’s really amazing to me is how often Russian planes seem to burst into flames in the first place.




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While all initially survived, the fate of 12 passengers is unknown as they are lost in the corn maze. Just Kidding.



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What the heck are they doing growing corn in Russia?


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This story brings “The "Cornfield Bomber" to mind.

“The "Cornfield Bomber" is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart, operated by the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron of the United States Air Force. In 1970, during a training exercise, it made an unpiloted landing in a farmer's field in Montana, suffering only minor damage, after the pilot had ejected from the aircraft. The aircraft, recovered and repaired, was returned to service, and is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force…”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber



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Captain Damir "Sullyski" Yusupov, 41, was hailed as a hero after he managed to bring the plane down without any engine power or landing gear and without causing any major injuries,

According to Soviet State Communications, Yusupov is being retiring and provided a Glorious State Condominium in the Village of Nenoksa in Siberia for crash of plane in field of corn...



 
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Cheers for him!




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This story brings “The "Cornfield Bomber" to mind.

“The "Cornfield Bomber" is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart, operated by the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron of the United States Air Force. In 1970, during a training exercise, it made an unpiloted landing in a farmer's field in Montana, suffering only minor damage, after the pilot had ejected from the aircraft. The aircraft, recovered and repaired, was returned to service, and is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force…”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber


It was in a wheat field.
 
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Wow.

Great job!!



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What’s really amazing to me is how often Russian planes seem to burst into flames in the first place.

That might be true but this time it was a bird strike in both engines. Kudos to the pilot.
 
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By golly, he is one cool cookie. He doesn’t even need to wear brown pants. Congrats to all involved.
 
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As regards this A321's crash landing in a "cornfield", the usage is perhaps the common worldwide lingua franca form of English, i.e., the meaning of corn may well be that derived from that of Britain as noted in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary.

"British : the grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (such as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland)." We in the USA use 'corn' in a slightly different manner and what we call corn is elsewhere often known as 'maize'.

So that 'cornfield' in which the A321 crash landed could well be a field of wheat or any other grain that is predominant in that area, possibly even maize.
 
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Good job along with a lot of good luck that the option was there at such a low altitude.
Also lucky that the aircraft, fueled for the flight and with an engine fire, didn't burn after the landing into the field.


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Not a Russian built plane, it was an Airbus A321-100.
Yes, it was a cornfield. Russians call it corn not maize.
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Russians grow a lot of corn. The story is that when Khrushchev visited the US in 1959 he returned to Russia & had many of the collective farms to replace wheat with corn. He reportedly said "I now know why the USA is so wealthy, it is because they grow corn"
Russian commercial pilots are all ex-military. About 15 years ago my wife was on an Aeroflot (a Boeing plane) flight from Moscow to Dulles with a stop at JFK. After landing they started to close JFK due to heavy snow & sent the de-icing crews home. The pilot announced that the flight crew was going to de-ice & they were going to proceed to Dulles. He explained that all the flight crew was certified. They were experienced since all the crew began flying in Siberia & they had to do their own de-icing.


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Russian commercial pilots are all ex-military. About 15 years ago my wife was on an Aeroflot (a Boeing plane) flight from Moscow to Dulles with a stop at JFK. After landing they started to close JFK due to heavy snow & sent the de-icing crews home. The pilot announced that the flight crew was going to de-ice & they were going to proceed to Dulles. He explained that all the flight crew was certified. They were experienced since all the crew began flying in Siberia & they had to do their own de-icing.


Translate that to typical Russian stupidity.

Airports have deice crews; it's not whether one can deice; if the airport is closed due to ice, it's because the ice is forming so quickly that it exceeds the holdover time for the fluid: it's unsafe to operate because of the icing conditions.

The crew may be able to deice, but they can't operate someone else's equipment, and if they did, they couldn't do a job any differently than the operators who are already paid to do it. Moreover, the crew needs to be in position and ready to start engines when the process is complete, because the clock starts running immediately. The time frame, depending on environmental conditions, fluid type and process, etc, isn't long.

A crew that would attempt to fly when the airport has been shut down due to heavy snow and icing conditions couldn't described other than idiots. Russians tend to operate airplanes that are questionable mechanically, often with all tires showing considerable cord, and think nothing of it.

Enough ice to roughen the wing surface to that of sandpaper is enough to prevent takeoff or cause such a loss of lift as to make the airplane unable to fly. Not a gamble worth taking. The US operates on the clean-wing principle. No snow or ice adhering, and aircraft operating in the US are required to do the same. US operators flying anywhere in the world must work at the same standard.

I used to fly in Siberia, incidentally...and we didn't do our own deice.

That said, Yusupov, who wasn't military, did very well. It was a forced landing, but not a crash landing, as the article suggests. The pilot did an outstanding job, ultimately got very lucky, and it was the best possible outcome. Impressive ending.
 
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Well done Captain Yusupov!
 
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Cheers for him!
Yep, good for him. He appears to have done a terrific job of being everyone safely on the ground, or in the corn field.


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