Ural Airlines will compensate a Novosibirsk farm nearly 1 million rubles. An Airbus A320 passenger plane on a Sochi-Omsk flight landed in the farm's field.

The question of whether to plow or not to plow the collective farm field where a Ural Airlines plane with 170 passengers and crew on board landed on September 12 was decided in favor of “not to plow.”

As Alexander Komarovsky, chairman of the Lenin collective farm, told NeMoskva, at the airline's request, he is leaving 40 hectares of land in front of the plane unplowed for the winter, meaning he won't be sowing wheat in the spring.

"They didn't plow. They asked us not to plow. They decided not to plow. They promised to pay," Komarovsky told our reporter.

It took the field owner almost three weeks to reach a final agreement with the airline. Exactly one week ago, the farm manager had planned to plow the "airplane" field. Back then, when the collective farm inquired about the airline's plans, the airliner's owners remained silent.

As a reminder, following the emergency landing of an Airbus A320 on a Sochi-Omsk flight in a field near the village of Moskovka in the Ubinsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, the owner of the arable land—the Lenin Collective Farm, headed by its director, Aleksandr Komarovsky—offered Ural Airlines a decision on whether to plow the field or not.

According to one theory, this winter the plane will take off from a runway constructed at the emergency landing site. If the field remains unplowed, the collective farm faces losses. The farm's manager offered to compensate him for income equivalent to what he earned from selling this year's crop—approximately 1 million rubles. After three weeks of consideration, Ural Airlines gave the go-ahead. As a result, 40 hectares of land will remain unplowed. The farm will be compensated for the expected loss of almost 800 rubles.