ural airlines flight 178 was a scheduled passenger flight from zhukovsky international airport in moscow to simferopol in crimea. on 15 august 2019, an airbus a321 (vq-boz) suffered a bird strike, which is when birds hit the engines of the plane. it happened after taking off from zhukovsky and crash landed in a cornfield a few kilometers past the airport. twenty-nine people were injured and no one was killed.