this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
93 points (97.9% liked)

World News

38262 readers
2850 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A passenger plane with 34 people on board has landed on a frozen river in Russia's Far East, apparently because of a mistake by the pilot.

No-one was hurt when the Polar Airlines Soviet-era Antonov An-24 plane came to a halt on Thursday morning not far from land, on the frozen River Kolyma.

The plane landed off the runway of Zyryanka airport.

Initial inquiries said pilot error was to blame, prosecutors said. Thirty passengers and four crew were on board.

all 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

I used to build ice runways to do arctic exploration. There's this equation called Gold's which goes like: w=4h². W is weight in kg, and h is thickness in cm. A 100cm (39") ice slab will bear 40,000kg -- or 88,000lbs.

As you can see, because of the ² in the equation, the load bearing capacity scales quite rapidly once it is thick. In the Canadian Arctic, natural ice was quite often 140cm or more in March. We would land cargo planes on the ice and unload bulldozers and other BS like that haha.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A passenger plane with 34 people on board has landed on a frozen river in Russia's Far East, apparently because of a mistake by the pilot.

No-one was hurt when the Polar Airlines Soviet-era Antonov An-24 plane came to a halt on Thursday morning not far from land, on the frozen River Kolyma.

Initial inquiries said pilot error was to blame, prosecutors said.

Flight PI217 left Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha republic in Russia's Far East, early on Thursday.

It was bound for Zyryanka, 1,100km (685 miles) to the north-east, and was due to fly on to another small town in Srednekolymsk before returning to Yakutsk.

Video from one of the passengers showed the plane almost in the centre of the frozen River Kolyma in eastern Siberia.


The original article contains 185 words, the summary contains 128 words. Saved 31%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

U.S. pilot landed on Hudson river. Of course, Russia wants to top this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

China claims historical documents saying that they were the first to do it 50,000 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if like, the GPS was jammed? But damn, seriously? Something that heavy on a lake, albeit frozen still, seems nuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, we have ice roads across lakes in the winter time for heavy hauling and everyone drives their vehicles out to go ice fishing and shit. I'd be more concerned that buddy just didn't known where the runway was lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean isn’t a plane much more mass than a car? 🤔 I don’t assume thickness. Clearly the plane landed and the people are safe so. I can’t refute it. I just am very surprised I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is smaller plane, maximum takeoff load is about 20 tons, and it probably wasn't fully loaded, full semi-truck can be about 35 tons so it isn't that impossible, aluminium is super light material.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He should get a book deal like Sully Sullenberger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

To be fair to the pilot, the "airport" runway appears to be a dirt strip along the river. They probably missed it by a few dozen meters.