Ural Airlines Flight 178 · Ramenskoye
On August 15, 2019, Ural Airlines Flight 178 (Ramenskoye). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- August 15, 2019
- Place
- Ramenskoye
- Operator
- Ural Airlines
- Killed
- 0
- Injured
- 74
- Position
- 55.510°N, 38.253°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q66459174
From Wikipedia
On 15 August 2019, Ural Airlines Flight 178, a scheduled passenger flight from Moscow to Simferopol, suffered engine damage and made a forced landing in a cornfield after takeoff from Zhukovsky International Airport. The aircraft, an Airbus A321 with 226 passengers and 7 crew members, was taking off from Runway 12 when it struck several birds during rotation, causing damage to the engines. Due to the resulting loss of thrust and improper actions by the flight crew, the A321 failed to gain sufficient airspeed and altitude to climb safely. The aircraft belly landed and slid across a cornfield before stopping with substantial damage. All 233 occupants survived the accident, although 28 suffered injuries, 3 of them serious.
In the immediate aftermath of the accident, citizens and the media praised the crew for managing to land and evacuate the aircraft without any fatalities. Comparisons were made to the 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 accident, which ditched in the Hudson River following bird strikes and dual engine failure with no fatalities.
Text from Wikipedia, “Ural Airlines Flight 178”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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