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Russian airliner with 233 onboard suffers birdstrike, makes BELLY LANDING near Moscow (VIDEO) Russian airliner with 233 onboard suffers birdstrike, makes BELLY LANDING near Moscow (VIDEO)
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A narrow-body airliner operated by Russia’s Ural Airlines and carrying over 200 passengers and crew, landed with its wheels up in the countryside near Moscow after suffering a birdstrike. A narrow-body airliner operated by Russia’s Ural Airlines and carrying 226 passengers and seven crew, landed with its wheels up in the countryside near Moscow after suffering a birdstrike.
Bound for Simferopol, Crimea, the Airbus A321 unexpectedly struck “numerous” seagulls shortly after departing from Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport, the airline confirmed.Bound for Simferopol, Crimea, the Airbus A321 unexpectedly struck “numerous” seagulls shortly after departing from Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport, the airline confirmed.
Unable to deploy its undercarriages, the airplane made a belly landing in a cornfield 1km from the runway. The malfunctioning engines were switched off moments before the bumpy touchdown to avoid fire on board, it has been reported. With no deployed undercarriages, the airplane made a belly landing in a cornfield 1km from the runway. The malfunctioning engines were switched off just moments before the bumpy touchdown to avoid fire on board, it has been reported.
The evacuation started shortly afterwards, with all 233 people safely leaving the aircraft. Luckily, there was no blaze on board the ill-fated Airbus and no one died in the chilling incident. Still, 10 passengers – including three children – received minor injuries and were hospitalized, Russia’s EMERCOM says. Sources later told TASS that the number of people hurt could be as high as 23.
Ural Airlines said the crew meticulously followed protocol during the emergency and acted professionally. It also praised the flight attendants for the “well-organized evacuation.”
People later described the traumatic experience they went through.
“The engine clapped several times, they tried to re-activate it but we started going down,” one man wrote on Twitter uploading a video of the jet.
“Now I believe in God, for sure.”
“This is my second birthday,” another woman is heard saying in a video seemingly taken by one of the passengers. 
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