Bird strikes at airports that almost doomed an Airbus over New York in 2009, but ended happily when the pilot landed the jet safely in the Hudson River. Also on a regular flight from Moscow to Simferopol, in Crimea, with 226 passengers on board, mostly going on holiday to the seaside.
This is ongoing as the Ural Airlines plane weighed as much as 77 tonnes and pilot Damir Yusupov told reporters how narrowly the passengers and seven crew had escaped disaster. The plane was climbing and accelerating when first one engine, then the other, suddenly shut down.
When one engine failed they thought they could still turn back to the airport, Capt Yusupov said. "When we saw that the second was also losing power, despite all of our efforts, the plane began losing height," he said.
"I changed my mind several times, because I was planning to gain height," he said. But Flightradar data shows that the A321 had only reached 243m (797ft). "I planned to reach a certain height, hold it there, figure out the engine failure, make the correct decision, work it all out. But then it turned out there was really hardly any time."
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