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Reuters: Russia hails miracle after plane makes emergency landing near Moscow

Published Aug. 15, 2019 at 11:00 am

This handout picture taken and released on August 15, 2019, by the Investigative Committee of Russia shows the Ural Airlines Airbus A321 after a hard landing on a corn field outside Moscow's Zhukovsky airport. - A Russian Airbus with more than 230 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow on on August 15, 2019 after hitting a flock of seagulls, officials said.

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Russians hailed a miracle on August 15 after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a cornfield on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after take-off.

The Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321 came down in a field southeast of Moscow after striking a flock of gulls, disrupting its engines.