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India Four Two
Very colourful when flowering, but our pilots are particularly careful not to run off the runway on those years, because the crop is like a forest of one metre tall trees, with very robust stems about 1 to 2 cm in diameter. Extremely unforgiving.
Interesting. So would you consider it worse than a cornfield for landing?
Sometimes one imagines that a forced landing into tougher crops might provide somewhat of a carrier landing deceleration, yet still a relatively safe landing compared to alternatives with bigger obstacles. Although crops could actually be less dangerous when taller, since they are more likely to be slowing the whole aircraft down instead of just grabbing the gear and trying to flip it. Low lying soybeans can be pretty tough and snaggy for example.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/276817 is the link.
Most news reports don't show the airplane, which seems to be in a bit of a dip in the land relative to where ever photographers used their long lenses. But in one news article one can see a gear leg and other bit of structure sticking up, so it seems that the aircraft did flip.