Evidently, Ural Airlines...

 ... practice crash-landings of A320s all the time, and they are becoming really good at it. But jokes aside.

An Airbus A320 en route from Sochi to Omsk declared a mid-flight emergency on Tuesday morning and was redirected to an alternate airfield, but failed to reach it, Russian media reported, citing emergency services. The aircraft was forced to perform a crash-landing in a field not far from Novosibirsk airport, sources told the RIA and TASS news agencies. The incident was reportedly caused by a hydraulics malfunction. There were up to 170 aboard the distressed flight, and according to preliminary reports none of the passengers or crew suffered any serious injuries. Authorities said the aircraft remained in one piece, there was no fire on board, and everyone safely evacuated it using emergency slides.

And again, whatever the reason, A320 performed brilliantly, whatever the cause of malfunction, not to speak of a crew, of course. I wonder if Captain Yusupov crash-landed it brilliantly again. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Friday the pilots of an Ural Airlines plane the highest civilian honor: "Hero of the Russian Federation" for their "courage and heroism" in performing official duties in extreme conditions. Putin also awarded crew members with the "Order of Courage" award for their "courage and dedication" shown in the performance of duties in extreme conditions. The honors came after Captain Damir Yusupov safely landed an Airbus jet Thursday with full fuel tanks in a cornfield after it hit a flock of birds seconds after takeoff from an airport in southeast Moscow. Yusupov made the decision after the jet lost power to both engines. That decision saved the lives of all 226 passengers and seven crew on board, including two pilots. The Ural Airlines Airbus-A321 aircraft headed from Zhukovsky International Airport in Moscow to Simferopol in Crimea, belly-flopped without chassis in a field near the Ramenskoye settlement about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the airport.

Yet another miracle from Ural Airlines, its pilots and crew and indomitable A320 series, which simply refuse to kill passengers.  Will know about the cause of crash-landing soon enough, the most important part--everyone seem to be OK. Preliminary cause--failure of hydraulic system. Hm. 

Here it is. This time it was not corn but wheat field.