A pilot flying for what Russian airline saved 233 passengers by making an emergency landing in a cornfield following a bird strike on August 15, 2019?

The forty-one-year-old pilot for Ural Airlines was flying a plane out of Moscow when seagulls struck the plane. Damir Yusupov safely made an emergency landing in a nearby cornfield and all 233 passengers on board survived with only one passenger requiring hospitalization due to injury.

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