The TRUE story of “The Miracle in the Cornfield” - Ural Flight 178

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Within 90 seconds, Ural flight 178 went from taking off, to crash landing. Why were these pilots treated like heroes, and is it really what they deserved?
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Final Report:

Admiral Cloudberg’s Work:

Thanks to Drzewiecki Design for use of their scenery:

Scenery:
UUBW Zhukosvkiy Beta-Version: AltayCompany

(UUBW) Zhukovsky International Airport (Ramenskoe) - Lighting system: ImPReZ

Engine Test: marioyhector1

Engine Test 2: Phil Requist

Passenger Images:

STRINGER / REUTERS

Birds:

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[RAXITH_playz]

A-321 be like.. “enough of this bullsi**.. I’ll handle this myself”

[robski]

Here's the sentence I didn't hear before: "The engine was subjected to more bird ingestion than it was certified for"... just like me during Sunday dinner😂😂

[jimbobur]

Seagulls: smart enough to learn to ignore bird scaring propane cannons. Dumb enough to fly directly into an oncoming airliner.

[AadidevSooknananNXS]

I feel Airbus automation gets a bad reputation for not having the pilot fully in control, but this is one of those case-studies where I believe that limit to angle-of-attack actually saved the passengers

[Hope_Boat]

Not the first time an Airbus managed to land itself safely despite numerous efforts from the pilots to crash it...

[justicemaake]

Your ability to explain and simplify Airbus systems whilst you're only rated on a Boeing 737 is underrated and you're probably explaining it better than some Airbus pilots. It goes to show the amount of work and research that goes into producing these high definition and quality videos that are unparalleled on YouTube spaces.

[johndavidson]

24:29 Never ever I thought that I am going to hear Mentour Pilot swearing in Russian lol.

[michaelbiscay]

A-321: Well, Seymour, I made it... DESPITE your piloting.

[tosasolntsepek]

Russian civil aviation student here. We were analyzing the report ourselves during lessons and came to the same conclusions as Petter - pilots did everything possible to crash the plane. Funnily enough, our government even sponsored a film about this event, it came out last year. Me and several friends from my group were really excited to see how awful it would be - and it was awful indeed. Whoever wants to watch, the name is "На солнце, в полях кукурузы". Actual SVR178 captain starred in it.

[szirsp]

This is why in Hungary on Budapest Airport they use trained hunting birds (falcons) to scare away birds from the airfield.
It's harder to "getting used to" something that eats you ;)

[danielsnook]

How many flying hours did the Seagulls have?😂

[MrBCWHITE]

@MentourPilot have you ever thought about ending the video with the simulation you show throughout the video but in real time? I'm always fascinated when you're telling part of the story for 10 or so minutes and then say all of this took place in just 12 seconds. It blows my mind how fast things happen. Love your ability to break things down so a non pilot can understand the inner workings. Keep up the great work.

[Glegh]

Clicked for Ural 178, watched for seagull facts

[daydev]

Turns out the real heroes were the flight control computers we had along the way.

[mocko]

The true hero here is the Airbus 321 and the amazing engineers behind it, managing to land safely despite the pilot's best efforts to crash it!

[ZombieSazza]

As a coastal Scottish woman, I appreciate the seagull facts. One of our seagulls in Aberdeen gained international meme fame for walking into shops and stealing bags of crisps (chips). They’re very smart and understand humans need to open the automatic doors so they can gain entry, all to steal crisps!

[VergilAckerman]

Additional reason for slow rotation could be that they flew A321. In Russian companies there is a wide known and applicable technique to rotate slowly and hold a bit at pitch 7.5 on A321 to avoid tailstrike, though this is not an official procedure. And the fact that it took 3 years since the accident for the report to be written is pretty much self explaining. After pilots were honoured, authorities didn't really wanted to reveal the truth about "heroes", but we, the Russian pilot community, knew that it was an Airbus aircraft who saved the day. And because of this very attitude of the authorities this very same airline had another forced landing because of poor crew performance several years later. Looking forward for a video about that accident from Mentour team. And thanks for this one.

[joefin]

I was involved with the furnish and install of the Podium Glass at the Freedom Tower in NYC. During one of our meetings with the owner's representatives, our team provided documentation that a large Canada Goose, impacting the glass at top speed, could fracture their design; they were mortified! Never underestimate the power of a bird.

[pyzikbartek]

On my birdstrike training instructor said “if it smells like fish it’s seagull, if it smells like chicken it’s another bird”

[morismateljan]

In Soviet Russia, the plane flies you.

And thank goodness it does.