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The authorities of the Moscow Region deny that the birds that entered the engine flew to Zhukovsky from neighboring landfills. The Ministry of Natural Resources will check this
The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation demanded to check the garbage training grounds in the area of Zhukovsky Airport after a forced landing in the field of the Ural Airlines, whose engine caught fire due to a collision with a flock of gulls. The press service of the ministry noted that by law it is forbidden to place landfills within a radius of 15 kilometers from the airfield control point, TASS reports.
It is known that next to the airport in Zhukovsky is a landfill and a waste sorting point, but the Ministry of Natural Resources does not have data on whether the landfill is included in the control radius of the air harbor. According to BAZA , Zhukovsky dispatchers warned the crew of the Ural Airlines flight about a possible collision with birds. “We definitely warn each crew before departure. Birds fly to heat up in the strip - there is a river and a landfill, they are generally constantly here,” the word dispatchers quoted the Telegram channel.
The flight research institute (LII) named after the system of repetiting of birds at Zhukovsky Airport. M.M. Gromova. A source at the institute told TASS that the system was working at the time of the aircraft departure: "Not a single departure and not a single landing are performed without a working system." The press service of Leah said that for the absence of birds, a runway was also checked.
According to the source at the institute, the flight "Ural Airlines" to Simferopol was the first on Thursday in Zhukovsky. “When the plane went on a take -off, he dispersed the flocks of birds, which at that time were on the runway and along it. They got into the engines when taking off,” TASS interlocutor said, noting that the bird is a well -known problem for the airport near Moscow.
Another source of the agency confirmed that outside the territory of Zhukovsky, between the borders of the airport and the Moscow River, there is an unauthorized landfill, where garbage is regularly taken. Poultry flocks are constantly observed there. "This leads to the fact that in the area of the runway, birds are circling constantly, including seagulls. After the past rain, flocks of birds accumulated directly in the airport area," he said.
The fact that the illegal landfill on Lake Glushitsa is the long -standing problem of Zhukovsky, said Anton Khlynov, chairman of the environmental safety commission of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society. “There was once a quarry, and the garbage dumped the garbage right into this wounded quarry. Household waste is swimming in the water. It is possible that the seagulls could be from there. It seems that they wanted to remove this landfill, but they probably haven’t removed it,” Khlynov said. He noted that in the suburbs, the exact number and location of illegal landfills are generally unknown.
Former pilot Alexander Romanov, on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, noted that the requirements of the air code are almost everywhere violated in Russia, according to which, within a radius of 15 to 30 km around the airports, there should be a free zone from garbage.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Moscow Region deny that the seagulls flew to the airport from the nearest landfills. According to the press service of the TASS municipality, they said that there were no garbage training grounds near Zhukovsky. The press service of the Ramensky district could not answer a similar question. And the Ministry of Ecology of the Moscow Region stated that the landfill closest to the airport is closed and is too far to cause the accumulation of birds in the air harbor.
"The assumption that the cause of the aircraft near the airport of Zhukovsky was the surrounding landfills on which the birds live was erroneously. The landfill closest to the landing site is" Safonovo ", it is located at 14 km. The landfill is closed in 2012, the waste is not imported there for many years, there is no feed base for the birds and is safe, so there are no large ones Classes, ” the agency“ Moscow ” quoted the Words of the Minister of Ecology and Nature Management of the region Dmitry Kurakin.
He added that the airport’s services and subordinate grids of the organization did not seek assistance in the Ministry of Ecology, therefore there was no reason to believe that the government of the Moscow Region could contribute to the achievement of a higher level of flight safety "in Zhukovsky.
Meanwhile, back in 2017, the media near Moscow wrote about the situation around an illegal landfill with an area of 10 hectares near the closed landfill near the village of Safonovo. The then Minister of Ecology of the region, Alexander Kogan, said that waste was taken to the landfill of the fourth and fifth levels of danger. Environmental damage was estimated at more than 49 million rubles. It was reported that the regional department of the FSB will be engaged in a dump.
The Ramensky district then was in second place in the Gosadmekhnadzor of the Moscow Region Gosadmtekhnadzor - there were 370 dumps and spontaneous garbage bulk. In June 2018, one of the illegal landfills caught fire .
The moment of the bird entering the engine during the acceleration of the aircraft in the runway was filmed by one of the passengers. Cotton is clearly heard on the record.
⚡️ The very moment when the seagulls got into the aircraft engine. The video is clearly heard by cotton. pic.twitter.com/6DDIYX4GL6
- TV channel 360 ° (@360TV) August 15, 2019
The general director of the Ural Airlines Sergey Skuratov told Interfax that incidents with flocks of birds are an extraordinary case. “This happens extremely rarely, maybe once every 50 years. And the birds were so large - seagulls or crows. It is good that the crew acted correctly,” he rejoiced.
According to the International Civil Aviation Committee, 5,500 poultry clashes with aircraft occur per year, the accident mainly occur during take -off and landing. The TV presenter, zoologist Nikolai Drozdov told the TELEGRAM channel “Rotstig” , which is conducted by journalists from the team of the late Sergey Dorenko that scientists of the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology have been fighting this problem for more than 50 years, but so far they can not do anything, since genetic memory in birds has been produced for centuries.
“Airplanes do not attract birds. They simply nest where it seems calmer for them. It is very important to remove them from there in time - this is a whole scarecrow system, even moving nesting, this is a lot of work that should be carried out. And they simply fly around their nests. This is usually some kind of lake,” Drozdov explained.
Honored test pilot, Hero of Russia Magomed Tolboev, in an interview with the 360 television channel, noted that the seagulls are "very bold" birds, it is not easy to scare them off and force them to leave the course. The Honored pilot of the USSR, the former deputy minister of civil aviation, Oleg Smirnov, confirmed that there are not enough measures against the clash of a flying aircraft with birds. Such incidents occur daily.
Aviaxpert: The authorities themselves produce near airports of high -rise buildings and landfills
According to the Aviation Expert Roman Gusarov, the problem of illegal economic activity near the airfields has recently escalated. "The municipal authorities began to distribute permits for economic activity to the right and left. Therefore, we had a high -rise buildings in the zone of airfields and airports, landfills, other objects that should not be there," he said to the Moscow Komsomolets .
The expert noted that a lot of landfills have formed in recent years. He advocated the tightening of punishment for illegal activities in the airport zone, including the organization of landfills, and increase the responsibility of the municipal authorities for issuing permits for such activities.
Gusarov recalled that at the airfield in Zhukovsky, tests of aircraft, new aircraft technology were held and undergoes, "therefore there should not be any birds and gulls close by definition." “If some kind of landfill appeared there, then I’m sure that it appeared in the post -Soviet period. I didn’t hear that there used to be problems with birds,” he added.
Recall that on the morning of August 15, the Ural Airlines flight flew to Simferopol, shortly after take-off, was forced to make a rigid landing on the corn field near Zhukovsky due to the hit of several birds into the engine, which caught fire because of this. The pilots put the ship on the belly, turning off the engines and removing the chassis. The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neudko, called their decision the only true one.
There were 234 people on board, including seven crew members, everyone survived. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, 55 people, including 17 children, were injured with hard landing. Six passengers were aimed at hospitalization, among them one child. All victims are in a state of moderate severity.