No Way Out: Why Emergency Landings In Fields Often End In Scrapped Aircraft

It's an unfortunate reality of air travel that emergency and crash landings occur from time to time. Fortunately, these are relatively rare when you consider how many flights take place on a daily basis. Nonetheless, for larger aircraft, an unplanned landing anywhere other than an airport usually means the plane will need to be dismantled and scrapped for parts. So why is this the unfortunate reality of emergency landings? The answers may seem obvious, but, in this video, let's look at some real-world cases, the list of reasons, and the intriguing exceptions.
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[@jantjarks7946]

Hats off to the pilots making the landings without any injuries to crew, passengers and none on the ground either.

[@carlramirez6339]

I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason they decided to dismantle the Ural Airlines plane instead of flying it out of a frozen wheat field was to obtain A320 spare parts.

[@AviationCommercials]

I suspect the same.

[@Randomvideos-zi7pe]

taca 110: hold my fuel

[@adul00]

Just yesterday re-watched Mentour Pilot's video on that, and it immediately came to my mind.

[@drumjedi5301]

Immediately thought of this. Really cool story!

[@skylineXpert]

heard the seats was taken out & boeings own test pilots did the take off...

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

An excellent episode! Glad you mentioned the levee landing.

[@randomscb-40charger78]

This happened to KAL 902, a Boeing 707-320B that was shot by Soviet fighters and managed to land on a frozen lake.

[@jgnclvgmng5408]

Good video. Congrats,

[@nurrizadjatmiko21]

Very good explanation👍

[@adampoultney8737]

Landing in fields and sometimes flying out of them is a regular occurrence in XC gliding. It’s a bit easier with small planes

[@ProAvgeek6328]

microsoft flight simulator players will takeoff and land anywhere

[@MrCaiobrz]

upside down even!

[@LaczPro]

"Yeah, those noobs..." GTA Online players landing planes at the top of the Maze Bank tower.

[@Speedera077]

Hahaha🤣 didn't expect that poor A320

[@LaczPro]

737 Jurassic being like: Hold my gravel kit

[@AviationCommercials]

Hey, :) Don't take anything away from TACA 110 :p

[@boronoev]

What about temporary steel runways? Like Marston Mat

[@BinsonChenAviation747-4F6phil]

Simple flying

[@sirf3rret]

nice

[@kemi242]

Why not just take the wings off, transport the aircraft in parts to the nearest airport on trucks, reassemble there and take off?

[@svenhodaka9145]

The Flight of the Phoenix! 👍

[@jungbolosse3034]

RURAL Airlines.

[@BFDT-4]

All kinds of members and attachments are stressed beyond their point of no return. To test every bit of that aircraft? Nope. Not going to happen.

[@wadehiggins1114]

You walk away from a landing. It's a great landing.

[@hughofIreland]

Everyone survived: impressive!

[@finalities]

Air Canada 143 that went around a decade without retiring:

[@botaohenryfeng9587]

It did land on a paved surface that was literally a former runway

[@eamonahern7495]

The man who landed on the racecourse said thank you to the people in Irish in a statement before he left. "Go raibh maith agat"

[@aussierc6788]

Another case was the Air Canada 767 ‘Gimlie Glider’. This aircraft flew from its emergency landing location and was returned to service.

[@iampianoman]

I was wondering if the Gimli Glider didn't count because it landed and took off on a paved former runway that was, aside from drag racing infrastructure, essentially intact.

[@timbaugh4034]

I heard some Soviet era and Western commercial aircraft can land and take off from rough runways

[@rapidthrash1964]

TACA 110: They landed on NASA property actually

[@JimmyJinIA]

I loose all control when I hear an old Flock Of Seaguls song as well!

[@cabottaxi]

So bottom line is don't fly with Ural Airlines

[@rcplaneprojectsandmore9499]

What if they put down one of those runways similar to what the military does? The ones that are laid down in panels and then can be taken out later.

[@Idonotwanthandle]

I bet it only looks as “can be taken out”, but in reality just a type of road building technique.

[@rcplaneprojectsandmore9499]

@@Idonotwanthandle No the military actually has a way to build runways that way

[@GabbieGirl007]

Yeah for jet airliners .however for turboprops this can be different

[@Real_Cheese1]

👏

[@j3j326]

The Pilots lucky saved lives even if they couldn’t save the plane, Since Russia Is designated A TERRORIST state it’s quite hard to get parts for their Aircraft. It’s good that they try to save what’s left of the plane.

[@davidhardister8710]

Them Russian pilots really know how to ditch.

[@neilpickup237]

Firstly, let me say that this applies as much to Boeing as it does to Airbus. Given the relative rarity of unplanned landings these days, any event can have a disproportionate effect on the statistics, so beloved of fanboys (all flavours). I would question the inclusion of events that can not be attributed to the aircraft itself, these two being perfect examples. I would also include the Boeings involved in 9-11 (767 into each of the twin towers and the less mentioned 757 into the Pentagon). What would be more relevant is how the airframe protected the occupants against what would be reasonably expected - which I believe should exclude the unsurviveable, suchet as being deliberately flown into a skyscraper or mountain at great speed. Already, we hear of comparisons about how an A350 didn't perform as well as a 777 based on how much of the airframe was destroyed, rather than the injuries and deaths of the passengers.

[@xfucjygkvlkbjhgcvm]

All this shows you how backwards safety is in Russian Aviation.

[@jantjarks7946]

Tell them geese! 😂😂😅

[@zahkam7322]

conveniently ignored the other incidents mentioned in the vid involving US aircraft IN the USA ?

[@Idonotwanthandle]

Accidents happen everywhere. Even though Russian safety is not the best, it is far from worse and these accidents are relatively minor.