Russian airliner forced to land in open field
Russian airliner forced to land in open field
Ural Airlines says no one was injured and denies a lack of spare parts was to blame for hydraulic failure.
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.
The pilot is a hero. Picking out a field from the air, landing a full plane on it, and not have any injuries is no small feat.
Perhaps we're beginning to see the effects of spare parts shortage.
Iran deals with a higher rate of airplane accidents because of sanctions so when I saw the title I automatically assumed the same thing.
Absolutely, the plane was cut up completely, to be used for spare parts and scrap, because they can't repair it.
Everyone on board was desperately trying to think if they ever did anything to offend Putin at any time.
And/or they were looking around for a russian politician/general/etc
Nah, they were safe. Windows on airplanes don’t open, so they couldn’t have possibly fallen out of them.
How are those Aliexpress spare parts working for ya, RuZZia?
Those are impressive canards.
Russia is lacking spare parts, which is probably why instead of repairing it, they cut it up for scrap and spare parts.
https://youtu.be/H4b25pp_tqU?t=1421
Apparently a plane can't be repaired after an emergency landing some claim.
Still hilarious that Russia is short of planes, and now cut this one up, because it had to land in a field. 😋
I mean screw russia, but be real.
NO one is repairing and using an airplane frame that has had a crash.
We write off cars for less... you definitely write off an airplane frame that's had a landing like that, and never certify it for re-use.
Cutting it up to transport it out of there is 100% normal for any nation.
My friend, many, many planes that have been crashed have been serviced and returned to service, including airliners.
Airliners cost around $100 million or more though. If they can, they're going to be repaired and put back in the service.
Logistically how would they get an airliner from a field back to an airport?
That's not taking off from the field. The simplest way to get it out of the field is to make it into many small parts.
I'm sure a couple of intrepid Ukrainian farmers with tractors could get the job done before sunset.
Just leave for the nearest place that accepts scrap metal and wait.
Still a bit hilarious, that while they may be short of planes, they lose them like this.
I thought that was some kind of super cool multiple x-wing jet at first glance.
You know what? Fuck you, X-Wings your A320
The A320 is fly by wire. Nearly all of the flight controls are operated by the hydraulic systems. A failure of all three hydraulic systems would make this plane incredibly difficult to fly.
A well maintained A320 should never have to ditch due to hydraulic issues, the redundancy makes sure of that. This crash is almost assuredly caused by the sanctions leading to planes dispatching with more inoperative systems than they should have.
Intereating fact: four years ago, the same airline had to land in a field after some bird strikes.
they were flying over France?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Pictures showed the plane stranded in a corn field, its emergency doors open and ramps down, and people milling around.
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".
The emergency landing comes as Russian airlines face difficulty obtaining spare parts due to Western sanctions on Moscow over its offensive in Ukraine.
In March, the Russian media outlet Vedomosti quoted Ural Airlines official Igor Poddubny as saying that it had about three months before they began breaking up planes for parts.
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I’m so jealous they got to take the slides down. I’d pay a lot more extra for an exit row if you got to do that.
I used to work in flight test, and I got to take the slide one time after some emergency exit testing. They are very fun and quite fast in order to get everyone out of the plane quickly. Fun facts about emergency exit slides: they use specialized gasses and packing methods for quick inflation and to fit in the tiniest amount of space possible, so they cost about $70,000 a pop. Also, the end of the slide has a pad that adds extra friction and pops you up onto your feet to keep your momentum even after you exit the slide.
All in all, a 10/10 experience that I would happily do again, provided I was in a non-emergency situation.
I wonder if they let you climb back in for another go?
If they had no hydraulics how did they deploy the landing gear? Can they be hand cranked into position? I really have no clue, just curious.
Landing gears are usually designed to drop by gravity (or manual hand cranking) alone if there's a hydraulic failure.
@NRoach44 You win again, gravity!
A lot of Airbus's landing gear has the unique "feature" of being gravity-lowered. So they work without hydraulics.
Nice caption "From plane to plough"
no chinese knockoff parts yet?
no the chinese are busy discovering the next quantum computer after the semiconductor sanctions