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.

  • @Mamertine
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    61 year ago

    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.

    • Null User Object
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      61 year ago

      I’m sure a couple of intrepid Ukrainian farmers with tractors could get the job done before sunset.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I’ve seen some situations like this in Air Crash Investigation, they just did the minimum repairs to get the plane working and had test pilots fly it away.

      • Thurstylark
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, if this isn’t possible, and it’s still in good enough condition to fix and fly, they disassemble the plane and ship it somewhere where it can be reassembled and fixed.

        Very unlikely that it’s fixable, though. Only heard of a few cases where it wasn’t more economical to just write it off after a landing like that.

        Another factor to consider is how much it’ll cost to actually pull that off, and if it’s not in a very accessible location (like, idk, fucking siberia or something), that adds to the cost of recovery.

    • monk
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      11 year ago

      Just leave for the nearest place that accepts scrap metal and wait.

    • @Buffalox
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      01 year ago

      Still a bit hilarious, that while they may be short of planes, they lose them like this.