Russian 'Sully' lands plane on corn field after bird strike

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Reuters news flash: https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1V50DQ (has picture!)

Russia has enough of it's own airplane heroes to be not named after other ones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Aeroflot_Tupolev_Tu-124_N...

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing you can fly the plane away from is a great landing.

Any elaboration on why the chassis was up?

Is it because they didn't have enough power to lower it or because it was better for landing?

According to the alleged professionals at pprune, they most likely didn't have enough time for that (gear extension takes time, and according to the reports they were at around 900 feet when the problem manifested itself, which - without any power - does translate to: prepare to contact ground ASAP).

They most probably didn't even have time to go through the appropriate checklist. They just did the most reasonable thing achievable in the remaining time which is: try to land the plane as safely as possible.

The Reuters article stated that the flight only lasted 2 minutes. They didn’t even have time to warn and prepare the passengers.

The chassis are only good when landing on a smooth paving.

This is awesome! Hats off to the crew!

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