Tass reports A321 EFATO crash landing, no fatalities

[Newc]

Bit of video here

https://life.ru/t/ново&#10...

Reports are that it had a bird strike on take off taking out both engines. Guy landed it - full fuel, 200+ people, wheels up - into a field and everyone walked away. Don't know what the Russian phrase for "balls of steel" is, but I'm guessing that's what it will say on his medal.

[Krikkit]

Onboard footage during the landing, amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&...

[eharding]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&...

Taking your baggage down the slide with you is one thing. Walking back up the slide into the still smoking aircraft is another.

Glad to see everyone walked away though, although I think I'd have kept walking a bit longer.

Edited: Ah - that bit of video is the same as the OP's......but presumably as the first version has some audio bleeped out, this version might be NSFW if you work in a Russian speaking office...

Edited by eharding on Thursday 15th August 10:19

[Eric Mc]

Sullyovitch

[red_slr]

Wow that's some good flying right there.

[red_slr]

Very lucky indeed!

[MarkwG]

eharding said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&...

Taking your baggage down the slide with you is one thing. Walking back up the slide into the still smoking aircraft is another.

Or going back to check if there's anyone left in the cabin...?

[peterperkins]

Very lucky it was open farmland...
Interesting how everyone was silent until it actually landed..
I was expecting cabin crew shouting orders etc..
Did they know it was doing an emergency landing?

[red_slr]

I did not hear brace or evac alarm on the video so I guess everything happened so quickly there was no time to tell the cabin anything just get it down and hope it does not break up or roll over.

[Dan_1981]

Interesting comment on the BBC - passengers were either taken to hospital or redirected back to the airport

[subirg]

That is, without question, first class airmanship. Well done to the crew. Heroes.

[aeropilot]

From this image posted it looks like they went through the flock of birds at, or a few millisecs before rotation.........!

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

No wonder they left the gear up, it was probably still cycling up when they were already heading back down again. Probably had no time to do anything other than keep it straight ahead and sink it back down onto the ground....!

I hope we'll see Vlad pinning a gong onto the flight crew - superb outcome.

[Seight_Returns]

Not detracting from skill of the crew in any way - but the terrain was a major factor in the favourable outcome.

There aren't many nice flat fields with cushioning, slippery vegetation in Houslow.

[Eric Mc]

There used to be -









This happened in 1963.

[aeropilot]

Eric Mc said:

There used to be -









This happened in 1963.

Technically, the DC-8 never took off, as it was an aborted take-off and he just run out of runway before he could stop it. The runways were shorter back then than they are now, and the a/c never even got as far as the perimeter road.
Whats more amazing to think now, is that the local farmer was allowed to plant cabbages technically within the airport boundary and what is now consider to be a high security airside area

[Eric Mc]

Death by cabbage.

What is in that location now - more runway I presume?

[Ayahuasca]

Amaizing landing.


(did anyone see what I did there? No? Oh well..)

[Seight_Returns]

I saw what you did but I thought it was corny.

[Krikkit]

Beeb have a very brief clip of footage from a passenger - looks like it's barely off the runway when the birds hit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49355236

[red_slr]

This is why one pilot takes the throttles and the other flies.
At v1 the throttle pilot takes their hands off so you are going no matter what.