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From: scion8/16/2019 2:44:06 PM
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Meet the Russian Sully: Hero pilot who landed jet in cornfield after a bird strike tells how he climbed back INTO wreckage to get his phone and call his wife after checking all his 233 passengers and crew were safe

Ural Airlines Flight U1678 plane was taking off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport when it hit a flock of birds

Hero pilot Damir Yusupov brought the plane down in a cornfield, leaving 23 people with just minor wounds

Captain Yusupov told how he climbed back into the cockpit shortly after the dramatic landing to call his wife

One of the engines caught fire while the other one spluttered and then stopped working, Russian media says

Crew emerged today to give a press briefing after many compared it to the 'Miracle on the Hudson' in 2009

By CHRIS DYER and CHRIS PLEASANCE and WILL STEWART IN MOSCOW FOR MAILONLINE and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 21:56, 15 August 2019 | UPDATED: 04:22, 16 August 2019
dailymail.co.uk
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