A Russian airliner carrying 170 people was forced to crash-land in a field after a hydraulics failure.
No one was injured in the emergency, which left the Ural Airlines Airbus A320 stranded next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia.
Ural said the pilot “selected” the landing site after the jet’s hydraulic systems failed while approaching Omsk.
The incident sparked denials from the airline that it was unable to service its planes due to sanctions on Russia.
If they had no hydraulics how did they deploy the landing gear? Can they be hand cranked into position? I really have no clue, just curious.
Landing gears are usually designed to drop by gravity (or manual hand cranking) alone if there’s a hydraulic failure.
@NRoach44 You win again, gravity!
@MicroWave
A lot of Airbus’s landing gear has the unique “feature” of being gravity-lowered. So they work without hydraulics.