Putin gives pilot who landed in cornfield Russia’s top medal
- Damir Yusupov landed his Ural Airlines A321 so gently in the head-high corn that just one of the 233 people on board was hospitalized
- Yusupov’s feat drew comparisons to the Miracle on the Hudson, when Capt. Chesley Sullenberger safely ditched his plane in New York’s Hudson River after a bird strike disabled its engines