A Ural Airlines plane carrying 233 passengers suffered a bird strike near Moscow, before crash landing in a nearby cornfield. 23 people were injured in the incident. Get the full story:
Moment of crash landing filmed inside planeA passenger jet has made an emergency landing in a field in Moscow after colliding with a flock of birds, injuring at least 23 people, Russian officials said.
The Ural Airlines A321, carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven, hit the gulls as it took off from the capital's Zhukovsky international airport en route for Simferopol in Crimea.The pilot then made an emergency landing in a cornfield about half a mile from the airport.Image:Elena Mikheyeva, a spokeswoman for Russia's civil aviation authority, said the engines were turned off when it made the emergency landing and also had its landing gear up.
There have also been comparisons with US Airways Flight 1549 which landed on the Hudson River in 2009 after striking a flock of geese.
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