Go with a corn field

Where are the wreckage of the Ural Airlines aircraft, which made a heroic landing in the suburbs two years ago. PHOTO

This week, a new meme appeared in the Russian segment of the Internet: several bloggers, specialized publics and the media at once reported that the A321 Air Airlines plane, after the landing of which the whole country was monitored on the corn field from the Ramensky near Moscow, still lied, divided into parts, near the place of landing (according to another version - right in the same place). And no one is guarded by anyone. Photos went as evidence on social networks: fragments of the aircraft were on them either on concrete slabs sprouted with grass, then just among the greenery.

The Internet boiled: some, wanting to take a picture with the debris, began to find out the coordinates of the landing site, others - to be indignant that the plane was abandoned, without having to utilize, the third - to exercise in wit.

I also decided to go to the wreckage. But the coordinates brought me not at all to the corn field.

REFERENCE
On August 15, 2019, at 6:12 in the morning, the A321 Air Airlines plane flew out of Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol. Already on take -off, the aircraft collided with a flock of gulls. After a minute and a half, both engines refused him.

The crew commander Damir Yusupov decided to put the plane on the nearest field. The phrase of the flight attendant Dmitry Ivlitsky “go to the right, in the sun, along the rows of corn”, said to passengers, became winged.

All 233 people on board thanks to the crew’s skill remained alive.

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The metal fence replaces concrete. Their height is about 2.5 meters. Thorny wire is stretched around the perimeter. There is a wire along the steel rings (under voltage?).

I stand on the border of the territory of Zhukovsky Airport. Not the one where cars park and people walk with suitcases. Another is the technical part of the airport, which passengers see only a few seconds after takeoff. And it is empty.

The wreckage of the aircraft is here. This is also seen in satellite images. From the corn field they were taken away shortly after an emergency landing. The Ural Airlines insist: photos on the Internet are old, taken in 2019. The author of the pictures, Artem Sansez in a conversation with me laughs: “He took off somewhere in the interval from August 2019 to August 2021.”

And yet: is there any access to debris?

There are no signs or signs on the fence that would warn you that it is dangerous to approach it for life. In the jump, it is possible to photograph what is on the other side - equipment similar to a transformer or a camshaft. Checking its performance is not risk.

The path trodden along the fence suggests that the area does not suffer from a lack of attention.

On the card I find a checkpoint-the path to it is blocked by concrete blocks, a small barn lock hangs on the five-meter lattice gates. A window is open in the guard booth, but there is no one inside, the passage doors are closed.

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At the site in front of the gate, taxi drivers stop relaxing. I ask several. They did not hear anything about the wreckage, they did not see the guards at the point.

There is a fence at 50 meters, behind which, according to the coordinates, the cut liner rests.

I notice on the map that you can approach the fence from the parking part. And when I go - I do not believe: the cab of the A321 is visible directly from the parking lot of Mosgortrans. One of the bus drivers says that the debris lay here last year, before he got a job. There were few curious people before, but in the last couple of days they frequently:

- No one drives anyone and does not delay - the guard does not go here. Zhukovsky says that this is [wreckage] not them, they have nothing to do with them, they brought them and put them. Walk and look who you want. The most valuable has already been pulled out, probably.

I willingly believe him, because it is easy to get to the plane not only to climb, but to go through and even call in a car: the fence here is only fragmented. The cabin completely lies separately in the grass between the trees, casually covered with a network similar to the fishing.

But the investigation of the MAC incident has not yet been completed.

Someone walks behind the fence-the guy and the girl examine and photograph the remains of the aircraft. I ask if it is possible to be here, but they do not answer - they are too passionate. Another young man with a smile throws in my direction:

- Come in, do not be shy.

The guy’s name is Victor, he is 19 years old. He has a complete coincidence with the flight: he just returned from Simferopol, lives in Zhukovsky, studies for a pilot. He learned about the wreckage from the local public and decided to see right after the flight, and when he came, he was surprised that the passage was free. It advises to climb the cab.

- There are a lot of things there: trimming wheels, machine guns, almost all buttons are whole and in place. I would take the control lever from there to look at, move at home, but I do not want to scream. It is interesting at all when all this will be removed.

He makes several frames to the camera and hurries home - he is afraid that the guard may appear and “throw problems”.

I consider the wreckage: parts of the fuselage are paced with a neat slide in parallel to the fence. The wing lies on top, and the doors of the cargo compartment on the right - as they should be on the whole plane. Small parts are scattered around - perhaps children played with them.

It’s easy to climb into the cabin - it’s enough to pull up, which will easily make a person of small stature or teenager. Traces of a massive visit are visible: the toilet was littered with paper and was used more than once for its intended purpose, on the floor of the candy wrappers from chips, crackers.

The emergency door is open, the forest is visible behind it - the same, specially protected, fenced with a fence with barbed wire and electricity.

In the cabin on the table by the dashboard there is a can of energy, next to the compartment-a bottle of champagne, and a sad but picturesque view of the remains of the fuselage and the airport opens from the windows. The rain is boring and suggests that this is a good place for youth gatherings in bad weather. And it has gained popularity. On the Google maps, a wreckage landfill is already designated as Zhukovsky’s attraction, and one of the users set her five stars.

The press service of the airport at the time of the publication did not provide comments about why fragments of the aircraft are behind a dilapidated fence and are not guarded. The Ural Airlines said that after the transfer of fragments “at the disposal of the competent authorities”, the airline cannot have information about their location.