“We want to thank the pilots who gave us their second birthday. The second time flying (to Crimea. - RT ) was not scary, they didn’t think about it for a long time, it had a very soft takeoff and a smooth landing, ”Muscovite Margarita Filippova quoted RIA Novosti as saying.
Another passenger of the A321 airliner, Elena Bogateeva, also thanked the crew.
“You can consider this a second birthday. Thanks to the pilot, thanks to the crew, everything was organized, ”she said.
The woman found it difficult to assess her condition during the emergency landing and said that after the evacuation from the plane, she phoned her husband, who was already with the child on vacation in the Crimea.
“She said everything is fine, alive and well,” she recalls.
Earlier, senior flight attendant Nadezhda Vershinina spoke about the evacuation of A321 passengers after an emergency landing of the liner in a field in the suburbs.
According to the Ministry of Health, as a result of a hard landing of the Ural Airlines aircraft, 76 people, including 19 children, sought medical help.
A321 flew from Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol, but soon after takeoff was forced to make an emergency landing in a corn field due to engine failure.
According to preliminary information, the aircraft collided with a flock of birds.