worked their miracle landing a plane with failed flight control here's this report from spotlights elana to me the. the tupolev airliner with eighty one people on board was on its way from russia's far east to moscow cruising at thirty thousand feet its electrical system failed the politic to do some quick thinking and find somewhere to land in the vastness of the russian wilderness as it descended there was no way to slow we down using brakes and the well look tricity to the flight controls added to that no radio to call for how near recklessly they saw an abandoned air felled with a concrete runway that had been used by how to cope just too short for a big airliner it was their only chance and they too could land in this town to the plane the end of the runway into the poorest cutting down trees as it slowed it finally came to stop when the wind india book down in more. none of the seventy two passengers and nine crew members were hurt. what was the response of the pilot cabin staff when the flight engineer reported that the equipment failed you said that it started failing gradually o