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.

  • @nous@programming.devEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    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
      3•1 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.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

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