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Kremlin lauds 'heroes' who landed plane in cornfield after gull strike
Pilots to get state awards for safe landing outside Moscow having collided with flock of birdsThe Kremlin has lauded two Russian pilots as heroes and said they would be given state awards after they landed a plane carrying 233 people in a cornfield outside Moscow having struck a flock of birds during takeoff.The Ural Airlines Airbus 321 came down in a field south-east of Moscow with its landing gear up after colliding with a passing flock of gulls, which disrupted the plane’s engines. Continue reading...
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