An interesting story about an emergency landing in the river Neva in Leningrad. Sorry that it is in Dutch but with the pictures and google/bing translate it might be readable.
It took a year for this story to leak to the west as it was published in Flight International in 1964. Remarkable in the story (in FI) is that the author said that the incident took place in last October (1964) He probably didn’t realized that it took so long to come to the West.
By: Bager1968 - 5th November 2014 at 06:33
The DC-8 was returned to service and flew for many years despite its ocean voyage. It was finally scrapped in 2001. Despite coming down on a calm river I don’t believe there was any discussion about returning the A320 to service.
Here’s a story on the JAL mishap
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Shiga-SFBay.htmTotally different cases…the Soviets didn’t want publicity of any mishaps, and when you control the media (and people are taught not to ask too many questions)….you get the expected results. 🙂
It looks, from the photos and from the fact that the DC-8 was craned out of the water two days later, that there was little fuselage damage.
The A320, on the other hand, suffered considerable damage to the skin and ribs of the lower aft fuselage, making repairs much less economical.
By: J Boyle - 4th November 2014 at 14:18
The DC-8 was returned to service and flew for many years despite its ocean voyage. It was finally scrapped in 2001. Despite coming down on a calm river I don’t believe there was any discussion about returning the A320 to service.
Here’s a story on the JAL mishap
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Shiga-SFBay.htm
What a difference in media-interest 1963 and 2009!
Totally different cases…the Soviets didn’t want publicity of any mishaps, and when you control the media (and people are taught not to ask too many questions)….you get the expected results. 🙂
By: FLY.BUY - 4th November 2014 at 13:17
Thanks for sharing. Always like reading about vintage Russian airliners. Reminds me of a JAL DC8 back in 1968 which landed in San Franisco bay, okay not a river on this occasion but similar to the Hudson River incident all the passengers went on to the wings to await rescue by boat.
By: wieesso - 4th November 2014 at 11:43
According to the Dutch article the pilot crossed several bridges before landing – and the distance between the Aleksandr Nevski bridge (under construction at the time) and the Finland Bridge is only 1.34 km!!
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By: Gerard - 4th November 2014 at 11:37
@Gerard: “last October” was written 13 August 1964 – so the author meant October 1963.
Thanks for correcting that.
By: wieesso - 4th November 2014 at 11:13
So US Airways Flight 1549 wasn’t the first successful landing of a passenger plane on a river without casualties!
What a difference in media-interest 1963 and 2009!
Very interesting – thanks for posting!
Martin
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%202230.html?search=Leningrad
“…no other case is known of an aircraft being towed ashore in such circumstances, with all survivors still on board.”
@Gerard: “last October” was written 13 August 1964 – so the author meant October 1963.
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