A Russian passenger jet flew into a flock of birds then crash-landed in a cornfield just outside a Moscow airport on Thursday
The Ural Airlines Airbus A321 was carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol -- a city on the Crimean Peninsula -- when it ran into trouble.Shortly after takeoff, the plane"struck a flock of gulls," according to an official from the Federal Air Transport Agency, TASS reported. Moscow airport plane fire: At least 41 people killed in Aeroflot crash landing"Some of the birds were sucked into its engines," he added.
The official told TASS that the emergency landing took place in a field less than a kilometer away from the airport's runway.Read MoreTwenty-three people, including five children, have been hospitalized, TASS reported.In May, at least 41 people on board a Russian Aeroflot SU1492 jet were killed after the aircraft crash-landed at a Moscow airport on Sunday, bursting into flames on impact.
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