icon bookmark-b
icon bookmark
icon camera
icon check
icon chevron down
icon chevron left
icon chevron right
icon chevron up
icon close
icon v-compress
icon download
icon edit
icon v-expand
icon fb
icon file
icon filter
icon flag ru
icon full chevron down
icon full chevron left
icon full chevron right
icon full chevron up
icon gp
icon ins
icon mail
icon move
icon-music
icon muted
icon nomuted
icon ok
icon v-pause
icon v-play
icon search
icon share
icon sign in
icon sign up
icon stepback
icon stepfor
icon swipe down
icon tag
icon tags
icon tg
icon trash
icon tw
icon vk
icon yt
icon wt
icon fm
العربية
ESP
РУС
DE
FR
RS
Where to watch
Schedule
RT News App
Question more
live
Russia & Former Soviet Union
World News
Business
India
Africa
RT Features
Analysis
Opinion
Entertainment
Shows
Projects
Home
Trends
Russian plane emergency landing
Meet the hero pilots who saved 233 lives in ‘miracle’ belly landing of jet in field
With just seconds to act, two pilots managed to land a disabled Airbus jet in a field near Moscow after a huge birdstrike had stalled its engines – and the heroic moment is already being compared to the 2009 miracle on the Hudson.
Aug 15, 2019 19:23
6 times hero pilots averted disaster and saved the day
Following Thursday’s miraculous emergency landing of a Ural Airlines plane in a cornfield outside Moscow, RT examines some of the most amazing feats of heroics by commercial pilots in recent history.
Aug 15, 2019 16:02
‘We’re all alive thanks to pilot’: Passengers recall dramatic Ural Airlines’ belly-landing
It was a chilling experience for passengers of the A321 jet as they watched it descend for an emergency landing in a field outside Moscow after a troublesome take off. They are now lauding the pilots for saving their lives.
Aug 15, 2019 15:44
‘Moscow Miracle?’ Quick-thinking Russian pilots hailed for safely landing airliner after birdstrike
The two Russian pilots who performed an emergency landing in a cornfield after their airliner hit a flock of birds carried out a feat on par with the much-celebrated ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, aviation experts told RT.
Aug 15, 2019 15:05
76 people, incl. 19 children, injured in Russian plane’s emergency landing
76 people, including 19 children, required medical attention after a Russian jet made an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow, after it encountered a birdstrike. There were 233 people on board.
Aug 15, 2019 14:25
CLOSE-UP: Moscow plane largely intact after hero pilots’ emergency landing (VIDEO)
Flattened cornstalks and a dented nose cone make up the bulk of the damage in the aftermath of an emergency landing near Moscow.
Aug 15, 2019 11:00
More
Top stories
Moscow terror attack suspects were on drugs – media
The plotters also scouted the site at least three times in the weeks leading up to the strike, news outlet Baza claims
Latest
Top Stories
WATCH Russian military strike US-made Abrams tank in Donbass
Russia ‘unaware’ US hid details of Moscow terror plot – Kremlin
UN court orders Israel to let food into Gaza
Ukrainian army gripped by gambling addiction – MP
New Delhi and Beijing hold border talks
Friendship with Putin could help end Ukraine conflict – ex-German chancellor
Italian PM reveals how she rebuked Macron on Ukraine
Opinion
The US has sacrificed a common anti-terror principle to stick it to Putin
Ukrainian ‘Caliphate’: What the West prefers not to notice when blaming ISIS for the terrorist attack in Moscow
What UK High Court’s decision in Julian Assange case means
Weapon of mass distraction: Is the West scapegoating Islamic State over Moscow attack?
Dmitry Drize: EU leaders have decided to militarize, so what now?
‘The Moscow terror attack was an inside job!’ The strange and twisted world of the West’s political and media Russia haters
The US is cultivating an antagonist to China in Beijing’s own backyard
NATO goes into full fear-porn mode to shake down taxpayers for cash
Latest videos
The absolutely awful state of US infrastructure & is P. Diddy the Jeffrey Epstein of hip-hop?
CrossTalk: Genocide-in-arms
RT News - March 28 2024 (17:00 MSK)
Filatov: The Unsaid
RT News - March 28 2024 (09:00 MSK)
RT Features
‘The army needs more people’: Israel will force Ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve as patience among seculars runs out
FEATURE
‘Russia is very important for protecting Palestinians’: Top Hamas official talks to RT about the conflict with Israel
FEATURE
Exclusive
Ukrainian ‘Caliphate’: What the West prefers not to notice when blaming ISIS for the terrorist attack in Moscow
FEATURE
Ruins of Yugoslavia: How Russia learned that NATO poses a threat
FEATURE
Add to home screen