Those who landed the plane of “Ural Airlines” in the field of beggars will be fired

The pilots of “Ural Airlines” who landed an Airbus A320 with running out of fuel in a field near Novosibirsk were asked to resign. This was reported by the “Baza” telegram channel.

Aircraft commander Sergei Belov and co-pilot Eduard Semenov were offered to write a statement of their own free will, but they have not yet started to do so, the pilots’ relatives told Izvestia.

Ural Airlines refused to comment on the dismissal of Belov and Semenov.

On September 12, the Ural Airlines plane with 159 passengers and six crew members on board, following the Sochi-Omsk route, made an emergency landing in a field. The pilots could not land in Omsk due to failure of the hydraulic system and decided to fly to Novosibirsk, where the runway is longer. However, they did not have enough fuel, and the plane had to be put down in a field.

Sergey Belov previously said that he refused to land in Omsk due to problems with hydraulics, gusty winds and the short length of the landing strip. The decision to make an emergency landing, according to the pilots, was forced.

A month ago, there were reports that Rosaviatsiya had completed the investigation of the aviation accident and named the cause of the accident as the error of the pilots, who could not correctly calculate the remaining fuel after the unsuccessful landing in Omsk. The plane should have been landed there at the airport, and not sent to the reserve airfield in Novosibirsk, as the crew did, the Rosaviatsia document says. It was not officially published, it was posted on social networks by aviation bloggers.

The commission’s conclusions correspond to the assumptions made by many aviation experts immediately after the accident. “Ural Airlines” called the failure of the plane’s hydraulic system the cause of the accident.