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Ural Airlines Flight U6-178, an Airbus A321-211, registration VQ-BOZ, performing flight U6-178 from Moscow Zhukovsky (Russia) to Simferopol (Ukraine), was substantially damaged when it force landed to a cornfield shortly after takeoff due to a dual bird strike and engine failure.

The aircraft with 226 passengers and 7 crew, was in the initial climb through 750 feet out of Zkukovsky’s runway 12 when the aircraft flew through a flock of birds and ingested birds into both engines (CFM56).

Both engines failed, one emitting noises as if the engine spools up and down, forcing the crew to stop the climb at 750 feet and land the aircraft in a corn field about 2-3nm past the runway with gear retracted. The occupants of the aircraft evacuated via slides, there were 23 injuries (including three children).

Russian Ural Airlines plane with 234 people on board Crash-Lands in Cornfield – See Details: https://t.co/7Tr7hlGHkb pic.twitter.com/on0IioGHdK — Fighter jets World (@FJW_Aviation) August 15, 2019

Video of Russian Ural Airlines plane with 234 people on board Crash-Lands in Cornfield – See Details: https://t.co/7Tr7hlGHkb pic.twitter.com/3q0UpTw0E1 — Fighter jets World (@FJW_Aviation) August 15, 2019 “There are currently 23 injured, including nine children. The children’s ages are between two and nine,” an unnamed source in the emergency services told the state-run TASS news agency. The injured have been taken to nearby hospitals, the report added.One of the engines caught fire after birds were sucked into them but the fire didn’t spread into the passenger cabin, TASS quoted an unnamed emergency services source as saying. Passenger-filmed videos showed people evacuating the aircraft as it sat in a cornfield near the airport.