Bird strike forces Ural Airlines A321 to land in cornfield

August 15, 2019
An Airbus A321 operated by Russia’s Ural Airlines was forced to land in a cornfield Aug. 15 after its CFM-56 engines ingested a flock of sea gulls shortly after takeoff from Moscow’s Zhukovsky International Airport. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that 10 of the 233 people on board...

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