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.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    OK I thought it would still be usable since it’s standing on the wheels seemingly completely unharmed. After all the emergency landing went extremely well, and all passengers are OK.

    • @bfg9k@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      Commercial aircraft like airbuses are purpose-built for landing on proper sealed runways, if it’s brought down on soft dirt the engines are filled with dust and debris, the landing gear is damaged as it drags across the field, and the airframe itself could have suffered fractures that won’t become apparent until the hull blows out unexpectedly one day.

      It is in one piece but there’s hidden damage to all sorts of things

      • @stevehobbes@lemmy.world
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        We X-ray these things all the time.

        Many many airliners have slid off runways all the time and reenter service.

        For decades Boeing sold a 737 Gravel Kit for their planes to minimize FOD ingest on unimproved surfaces.

        http://www.b737.org.uk/unpavedstripkit.htm

        The gear didn’t collapse. The damage is probably fairly minimal, including the engines which were probably at idle, and they most likely didn’t use or need thrust reversers.

        Not saying it’s a certainty if this happened in the US or EU that it would fly again, but it isn’t impossible.

        I will say it’s unlikely because getting it out of a field in one piece is no small task - and probably more expensive than the plane is worth relative to the parts value, but not because of any inherent damage. Just because the engines are the most valuable thing on a plane and much easier to take those off the plane than move the airframe without damaging it more.

      • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        OK I see, still a bit hilarious, that while they may be short of planes, they lose them like this.

    • @nous@programming.dev
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      On rough ground that would put a lot of stress in the landing system and likely the rest of the plane. Small cracks in things can lead to catastrophic failure later on even if everything looks fine now. Would you want to take a chance on that?

      Not to mention they have to get it out of the field. That alone is probably not worth the effort to save a possibly compromised frame.

      • Treczoks
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        31 year ago

        Would you want to take a chance on that?

        I would not. But are you sure about Russia? And even if they just break up the plane for parts, would it really be safe to fly a plane that relies on parts salvaged from this one?

      • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        OK I see, still a bit hilarious, that while they may be short of planes, they lose them like this.