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Ural Airlines has begun cutting down the plane that landed in a field near Novosibirsk.

Footage of the tail being sawed off the fuselage, shared airline press service.

Previously from the liner took off Engines, electronics, landing gear, cockpit equipment and interior cabin components will all be used on other aircraft.

The fuselage, tail unit and wings are planned to be disposed of.

The plane made an emergency landing in September 2023. The aircraft, flying from Sochi to Omsk, signaled an alarm and disappeared from radar. It was later determined that the plane had suffered a hydraulic system failure, and the pilots managed to land it in a wheat field. There were 161 passengers and six crew members on board. No one was injured.

The airline considered various options, including ferrying the aircraft. But this idea was ultimately abandoned because it required the construction of a temporary runway.