Russian airliner forced to land in open field

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Russian airliner forced to land in open field
bbc.com

A Russian airliner carrying 170 people was forced to crash-land in a field after a hydraulics failure.

No one was injured in the emergency, which left the Ural Airlines Airbus A320 stranded next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia.

Ural said the pilot "selected" the landing site after the jet's hydraulic systems failed while approaching Omsk.

The incident sparked denials from the airline that it was unable to service its planes due to sanctions on Russia.

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Everyone on board was desperately trying to think if they ever did anything to offend Putin at any time.

Nah, they were safe. Windows on airplanes don’t open, so they couldn’t have possibly fallen out of them.