Ural Airlines Flight 178

Now normally I write about flights that "if" I was the pilot (which is written like a flight simmer uses the term, if they became a pilot how would they have changed the outcome) and talk about how I could change the outcome of the incident, that's the way I normally write them!!

However, this one is different and more internally based on why these happen and what can be done about it!

What Happened------

Ural Airlines Flight 178 was a scheduled passenger flight from Moscow–Zhukovsky to Simferopol, Crimea. On 15 August 2019, an Airbus A321operating the flight suffered a bird strike after taking off from Zhukovsky and crash-landed in a cornfield, 5 kilometers (3.1 mi; 2.7 NM) past the airport. All onboard survived; 74 people sustained injuries, but none were severe.

This accident was caused by another birdstrike, just like the one that caused Cactus (US Air) 1549 in the Hudson river back in 2009! Instead of Canada geese, they hit some "seagulls" seagulls are smaller than Canada geese thus they would have gone through the engines but they are quite boney, thus they broke engine blades and caused both engines to fail!

Doing this caused the plane (an a321) to crash into a cornfield, and nearly killing all people, most survived but some were injured!!

Now we've seen this type of aircraft crash with a birdstrike back in 2009 with us air 1549, back then the deciding body who told the authority about the fact that they had no control of the plane thought something like this was a one-take or one time thing but they needed to learn any airliner could have this happen to them at any time without fuel and or the bird strike accident. its happened before and it will happen again.. airports work hard to make sure the planes don't hit them but planes do fly in other places!

So I can't say I know what I could change of the outcome but I have strong feelings that it will happen again and there are not much that pilots can do about it...except finding a proper landing area other than a field or river as both those could have catastrophic effects (if there was a boat or ship in river or a tractor or combine in field)... both came out with no other boats ships or a tractor/combine in the field so they were lucky!!

Focus on where you could land and try to land there (try yo avoid roads lakes rivers and highways!!

If you can make it to another airport try that, but we learned from 1549 that going to an airport might not be the right thing but that's only if you are in the city!! in the middle of nowhere an airport might be a proper place to go!! but only in that situation!!