According to him, if the pilots released the chassis, it could be buried in the ground.
“If it were buried, the plane would stop very sharply. And here, due to the fact that there was no chassis, he simply glided over the corn, ”RIA Novosti quotes Skuratova.
He noted that in these conditions, this decision of the crew commander was correct.
Earlier it became known about the hospitalization of the second pilot accidentally landed in the Moscow region A321 aircraft.
Former Boeing Corporation security engineer Todd Curtis expressed the view that the actions of the A321 pilots would subsequently be recognized as a key factor in preventing a catastrophe.
The instructor pilot, former head of the flight service of the Loginovo airfield, Sergey Pidzhakov, in an interview with URA.RU, called the jewelry emergency landing A321 in a corn field.