Posted on Sep 13, 2023
Russian airliner forced to land in open field
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A Russian airliner carrying 170 people was forced to crash-land in a field after a hydraulics failure.
No one was injured in the emergency, which left the Ural Airlines Airbus A320 stranded next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia.
Ural said the pilot "selected" the landing site after the jet's hydraulic systems failed while approaching Omsk.
The incident sparked denials from the airline that it was unable to service its planes due to sanctions on Russia.
Pictures showed the plane stranded in an open field, its emergency doors open and ramps down, and people milling around.
Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said that the "unscheduled landing" happened in the early hours of Tuesday.
It added that the landing point had been "selected from the air" near the village of Kamenka. None of the passengers had sought medical aid, it added.
Rosaviatsia said it was investigating the emergency landing, and Ural said the crew had been suspended until the investigation was complete.
No one was injured in the emergency, which left the Ural Airlines Airbus A320 stranded next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia.
Ural said the pilot "selected" the landing site after the jet's hydraulic systems failed while approaching Omsk.
The incident sparked denials from the airline that it was unable to service its planes due to sanctions on Russia.
Pictures showed the plane stranded in an open field, its emergency doors open and ramps down, and people milling around.
Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said that the "unscheduled landing" happened in the early hours of Tuesday.
It added that the landing point had been "selected from the air" near the village of Kamenka. None of the passengers had sought medical aid, it added.
Rosaviatsia said it was investigating the emergency landing, and Ural said the crew had been suspended until the investigation was complete.
Russian airliner forced to land in open field
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Sergei Skuratov, the head of Ural Airlines, said that one of the plane's hydraulic systems failed as it flew to Omsk from Sochi on the Black Sea coast.
He denied that the plane had caught fire, saying apparent scorch marks above one of the wings seen in pictures on social media was "just dirt".
A catastrophic failure of a plane's hydraulic systems can lead to a loss of flight control.
However, Russian aviation experts said there are back-up systems and disputed the crew's decision to ditch.
"There are three hydraulic systems, one electric," pilot Andrei Litvinov told Gazeta.ru of the A320. "There is no need to land the plane in a field."
He added the decision endangered the lives of those on board and on the ground."...
..."Sergei Skuratov, the head of Ural Airlines, said that one of the plane's hydraulic systems failed as it flew to Omsk from Sochi on the Black Sea coast.
He denied that the plane had caught fire, saying apparent scorch marks above one of the wings seen in pictures on social media was "just dirt".
A catastrophic failure of a plane's hydraulic systems can lead to a loss of flight control.
However, Russian aviation experts said there are back-up systems and disputed the crew's decision to ditch.
"There are three hydraulic systems, one electric," pilot Andrei Litvinov told Gazeta.ru of the A320. "There is no need to land the plane in a field."
He added the decision endangered the lives of those on board and on the ground."...
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