A Russian airliner made an emergency landing near Moscow shortly after taking off, the Moscow Times reported. The Airbus 321 belongs to ural airlines. It was originally scheduled to fly from Zhukovsky International Airport in Moscow to Simferopol in Crimea. It carried 234 people at the time of departure.
It is reported that 23 people were injured by the hard landing, including 6 children, and the injured have been sent to nearby parliamentarians. Tass quoted Sergei skuratov, chairman of Ural airlines, as saying, "birds flew into the two engines of the airliner, causing the engine to shut down." According to the pictures taken at the scene, the passengers were in the nearby corn field and had been evacuated from the passenger plane.
On the reasons for the emergency landing, the report revealed that when taking off, the passenger plane encountered a group of seagulls after leaving the runway, and the engine was hit many times.
Russia's Independent newspaper quoted a source as saying that the plane landed in a field near a fishing village 3-5 kilometers away from Zhukovsky airport.
After the accident, the picture of the aircraft alternate landing scene has been exposed. The plane is flight u6178 from Zhukovsky to Simferopol. Shortly after taking off, the plane hit a bird flying in the sky, causing the plane's engine to catch fire and damage. Then the plane made an emergency landing in a cornfield near the airport. The landing and take-off are only 15 minutes apart. It can be said that these 15 minutes are a matter of life and death. It is reported that there were 234 passengers on the plane. Ural Airlines said that after the plane was hit by a bird, both engines failed. So it seems that the captain's ability to land successfully is really excellent.