We're Going Right, Toward the Sun, Along the Corn Rows. A Story of a Miraculous Rescue Through the Eyes of a Flight Attendant

Aliya Slyakaeva is a journalist in the past and a flight attendant for the airline “Ural Airlines” today. With passion, she writes about what she loves most—the sky, airplanes, and travel. Damir Yusupov is a civil aviation pilot, a Hero of Russia. Commander of an Airbus A321 aircraft for “Ural Airlines.” An incredible first-person story about the marvelous rescue of the Airbus A321 and its 233 passengers. On August 15, 2019, the Ural Airlines plane collided with a flock of birds and, having damaged two engines at once, was forced to make an emergency landing in a cornfield near Zhukovsky. The book tells about Aliya Slyakaeva’s challenging path into civil aviation and the difficult work of a flight attendant. The chronology of the emergency landing, the pilots’ emotions, and the subsequent rescue operation are recreated with painstaking precision, allowing the reader to feel like the passengers and crew of the stricken aircraft. “There are no opportunities to try all possible options one after another. The birds didn’t give any chance to rise higher—to have time to decide. And every second may be the last for one of the engines. You need to land as soon as possible, while the turbines are still working. You have to make a decision. It must be the only right one. Behind you are 231 people. The pilots are responsible for all of them.”