Summary
- Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has formed a brand new commission to research the Ural Airlines incident involving an Airbus A320 landing in a field.
- The previous report found that pilots made mistakes, including diverting without reason and never considering their fuel reserves.
- Ural Airlines previously said that the aircraft was in good condition and will fly again.
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, or Rosaviatsiya (FATA, Росавиация), has resumed its investigation into the incident when a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 landed in a wheat field near Novosibirsk, Russia. In accordance with a report by the Russian news agency TASS, latest circumstances surrounding the event were discovered, with the agency referring to the top of the West Siberian Interregional Territorial Administration (ZS MTU) department of Rosaviatsiya, Fedorov Vyacheslav Ivanovich.
Recent commission investigating the incident
TASS added that a brand new commission was formed to research the Ural Airlines incident. The previous report, which was approved by the deputy head of the ZS MTU department of Rosaviatsiya Ivan Belovon on October 31, 2023, said that the pilots made several mistakes through the flight, including diverting with none reason, in keeping with the Russian news agency. Moreover, the administration concluded that the crew must have considered their current fuel reserve and the increased fuel consumption after the Airbus A320 began climbing once the crew abandoned their original approach at 2,150 feet (655.3 meters).
On September 12, the Ural Airlines Airbus A320, registered as RA-73805 (original registration VP-BMW), was operating flight U61383 from Sochi International Airport (AER) to Omsk Tsentralny Airport (OMS). In the course of the approach at OMS, the aircraft abandoned its approach and turned left before flying away and climbing to 18,000 ft (5,486 m) to divert to nearby Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (OVB). Nonetheless, on its solution to OVB, it was forced to land in a wheat field. Not one of the 159 passengers or six crew members sustained any heavy injuries.
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On the time, TASS reported that the crew selected OVB in its place airport because it had a maintenance base and an extended runway for the reason that aircraft had an issue with its hydraulics, which affected its brakes. Yet the shortage of reserve fuel forced the pilots to land the aircraft in the sector. One passenger told the news agency that the landing felt softer in comparison with touching down on a runway.
This was the second time a Ural Airlines aircraft landed in a field. In 2019, an Airbus A321, registered as VQ-BOZ, was forced to land in a cornfield shortly after its takeoff from Moscow Zhukovsky International Airport (ZIA) following two bird strikes disabling the aircraft’s engines.
Recovering the aircraft
Greater than every week after the Airbus A320 landed near Novosibirsk, the airline said in a post on Telegram that following a preliminary assessment of the aircraft, it was with no severe damage. Because of this, Ural Airlines concluded that it could fly again, with the engines only ingesting that might require the carrier to switch several engine fan blades. Ural Airlines added.
In a Telegram post in early October, Ural Airlines said that the engines wouldn’t need to be refurbished, with