The moment a plane landed in an emergency field when it was "attacked" by birds

After colliding with a flock of birds, an airplane has emergency landing this Thursday in a field planted with corn in the Moscow region of Russia. On the Airbus A321, there were 226 pbadengers and 7 crew members on board.

According to the Ministry of Health of this country, 23 people, including nine children, have been hurt And they were hospitalized.

The plane "it's crashed on take-off against a flock of birds "at the airport in Jukovki, a suburb of Moscow, announced in a statement the Russian Agency of Air Transport (Rosaviatsia).

The plane had taken off towards Simferopol, the main city of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. "According to preliminary information, 226 pbadengers and 7 crew members were on board," the statement said.

Several birds disturbing the "operation of the engines", the crew decided to make a emergency landingsaid the source.

The Airbus landed "in a cornfield located 1 km from the runway without the landing gear," the agency said.

"Everything happened in a few seconds … We had taken off and we landed suddenly," said public television Irina Usatcheva, one of the pbadengers. Russia 24.

The Russian investigation committee announced the opening of an investigation into the incident.