Kurchenko hope - stewardess my clear star - song. A post in memory of the Soviet flight attendant Nadya Kurchenko, who died in the sky from a terrorist bullet Nadya Kurchenko history

Feat is a heroic act,
committed under difficult conditions

On October 15, 1970, taking off from Batumi airport, the AN-24 aircraft (flight 244) with 46 passengers on board was supposed to land in Krasnodar. A few minutes after takeoff at an altitude of 800 meters, two passengers called flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko and passed a note to the pilots demanding that they change the route and fly to Turkey.

Still from the movie "Enrollee"

Monument to Nadezhda Kurchenko in Sukhumi

The visibility was clear! The Ana flight was ordinary.
The flight attendant was so bright and sweet,
Because the flight was simple and familiar,
And Nadya didn’t think that trouble would break out!
The plane suddenly deviated unexpectedly from its course,
Communication with the Earth has been interrupted!
Not a single person on earth thought
That Nadya died, but did not surrender to the scoundrels!
...Nadya was summoned by the man in the first chair
And he ordered the commander to deliver the letter.
The flight attendant looked at him cautiously,
And suddenly he realized: “She can get in the way!”
He rushed after her, Nadya said harshly:
“Citizen! You come back, you can’t come here!”
He pulled out a revolver and she screamed,
Opening the cabin door slightly: “Attack, friends!”
A shot rang out. Nadya staggered, but stood up,
Pressing against the doors, shielding friends.
But the bandit, enraged, gave a second one, and you fell.
So Nadezhda died at the hands of the executioners!
And the next morning the whole country knew about Nadya.
And how our plane was hijacked to Turkey!
The crew, the flight attendant saved the passengers!
And she was killed before finishing the flight!
Although I didn’t fly on her plane,
But with soul and heart you have become dear to me.
Blocking the bandits' path to the pilot's cabin,
You gave your life for our Motherland!
And a plane named after her flies,
And with a color photograph of where she died!
And all kinds of people will see Hope,
And the greatness of the feat will always be remembered!
Tatiana Smirnova

Material from Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970) - flight attendant of the Sukhumi aviation detachment. Died (killed) trying to prevent terrorists from hijacking the plane.
Awarded the Order of the Red Banner (posthumously).

Born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novopoltava, Klyuchevsky district Altai Territory. She graduated from a boarding school (where a monument was erected to her after her death) in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky district, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Since December 1968, she worked as a flight attendant for the Sukhumi air squad.

She was killed by Pranas Brazinskas on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent him and his 15-year-old son Algirdas from hijacking an An-24 aircraft (board USSR-46256), flying flight No. 244 Batumi - Sukhumi - Krasnodar. In exactly three months Nadezhda was supposed to have a wedding.

Memory

Streets in a number of cities in the former USSR are named in honor of Nadezhda Kurchenko.
The name of Nadezhda Kurchenko was given to one of the peaks of the Gissar Range, a tanker of the Russian fleet and an asteroid.
In the village of Novopoltava in the Altai Territory, next to the school named after Nadezhda Kurchenko, a monument was erected in her honor. The school has created a museum of Nadezhda Kurchenko.
Since 1982, a race in memory of Nadezhda Kurchenko has been held in Glazov every October. The memorial run is included in the All-Russian athletics competition calendar. Athletes of all ages from Izhevsk, cities and rural areas of Udmurtia and representatives from other cities of Russia take part in the race at distances of 3 and 10 kilometers.
A museum of Nadezhda Kurchenko was created at the school of young pilots in Izhevsk.
In the mountains, on the border of Abkhazia and Krasnodar region An obelisk to Nadezhda Kurchenko was erected.
Feature film “Entrant” (A. Dovzhenko Film Studio, director Alexey Mishurin)

October 15, 2015 marked 45 years since the death of 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who at the cost of her own life tried to prevent the capture of the Soviet passenger plane terrorists.

45 years since the feat Soviet flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko

This was the first case of a passenger aircraft being hijacked on such a scale (hijacking). With him, in essence, began a long-term series of similar tragedies that splattered the skies of the whole world with the blood of innocent people.

And it all started like this.
The An-24 took off from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12:30 p.m. Heading to Sukhumi. There were 46 passengers and 5 crew members on board the plane. Flight time according to schedule is 25-30 minutes.
But life has ruined both the schedule and the schedule.
At the 4th minute of the flight, the plane sharply deviated from its course. The radio operators asked for the board, but there was no response. Communication with the control tower was interrupted. The plane was leaving towards nearby Turkey.
Military and rescue boats went out to sea. Their captains received orders: to proceed at full speed to the site of a possible disaster.
The board did not respond to any of the requests. A few more minutes - and the An-24 left USSR airspace. And in the sky above the Turkish coastal airfield of Trabzon, two rockets flashed - red, then green. It was a signal emergency landing. The plane touched the concrete pier of a foreign air harbor.
Telegraph agencies around the world immediately reported: a Soviet passenger plane had been hijacked. The flight attendant was killed and some were wounded. All.

Georgy Chakhrakiya, crew commander of the An-24, No. 46256, who performed a flight on the Batumi-Sukhumi route on October 15, 1970, recalls - I remember everything. I remember it thoroughly.
Such things are not forgotten. That day I said to Nadya: “We agreed that in life you would consider us your brothers. So why aren't you being honest with us?
I know that soon I will have to go to a wedding...” the pilot recalls with sadness. - The girl raised her blue eyes, smiled and said: “Yes, probably November holidays" I was delighted and, shaking the wings of the plane, shouted at the top of my voice: “Guys! We’re going to a wedding for the holidays!”... And within an hour I knew that there would be no wedding...

Today, 45 years later, I intend to again - at least briefly - outline the events of those days and again talk about Nadya Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To talk about the stunning reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time to the sacrifice, courage, courage of man. Tell about this, first of all, to the people of the new generation, the new computer consciousness, tell how it was, because my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadya Kurchenko - and without reminders. And it would be useful for young people to know why many streets, schools, Mountain peaks and even the plane bears her name.
...After takeoff, greetings and instructions to passengers, the flight attendant returned to her work area, a narrow compartment. She opened a bottle of Borjomi and, letting the water shoot out sparkling tiny cannonballs, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Having placed them on the tray, she entered the cabin.

The crew was always glad to have a beautiful, young, extremely friendly girl in the cockpit. She probably felt this attitude towards herself and, of course, she was happy too. Perhaps, even in this dying hour, she thought with warmth and gratitude about each of these guys, who easily accepted her into their professional and friendly circle. They treated her like a little sister, with care and trust.
Of course, Nadya was in a wonderful mood - everyone who saw her in the last minutes of her pure, happy life affirmed.
After giving the crew a drink, she returned to her compartment. At that moment the bell rang: one of the passengers called the flight attendant. She came up. The passenger said:
“Tell the commander urgently,” and handed her an envelope.

At 12.40. Five minutes after takeoff (at an altitude of about 800 meters), a man and a guy sitting in the front seats called the flight attendant and gave her an envelope: “Tell the crew commander!” The envelope contained “Order No. 9” typed on a typewriter:
1. I order you to fly along the specified route.
2. Stop radio communication.
3. For failure to comply with an order - Death.
(Free Europe) P.K.Z.Ts.
General (Krylov)
There was a stamp on the sheet, on which was written in Lithuanian: “... rajono valdybos kooperatyvas” (“cooperative management... of the district”). the man was dressed in the dress uniform of a Soviet officer.
Nadya took the envelope. Their gazes must have met. She was probably surprised by the tone in which these words were spoken. But she didn’t find out anything, but stepped towards the door luggage compartment- Next was the door to the pilot's cabin. Probably, Nadya's feelings were written on her face - most likely. And the sensitivity of the wolf, alas, surpasses any other. And, probably, it was precisely thanks to this sensitivity that the terrorist saw hostility, subconscious suspicion, a shadow of danger in Nadya’s eyes. This was enough for the sick imagination to sound the alarm: failure, verdict, exposure. His self-control failed: he literally ejected from his chair and rushed after Nadya.

She only managed to take a step towards the pilot's cabin when he opened the door to her compartment, which she had just closed.
- You can’t come here! - she screamed.
But he approached like the shadow of an animal. She realized: there was an enemy in front of her. The next second, he also realized: she would ruin all plans.
Nadya screamed again.
And at the same moment, slamming the cabin door, she turned to face the bandit, furious with this course of affairs, and prepared to attack. He, like the crew members, heard her words - without a doubt. What could he do? Nadya made a decision: not to let the attacker into the cockpit at any cost. Any!
He could have been a maniac and shot the crew. It could have killed the crew and passengers. He could... She didn't know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: by jumping towards her, he tried to knock her off her feet. Putting her hands on the wall, Nadya held on and continued to resist.

The first bullet hit her in the thigh. She pressed herself even tighter against the pilot's door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadya - knock the weapon out of his right hand.
A stray bullet hit the ceiling. Nadya fought back with her feet, hands, even her head.
The crew assessed the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn in which they were at the moment of the attack, and immediately rolled the roaring car to the left, and then to the right. The next second, the plane went steeply upward: the pilots tried to knock down the attacker, believing that he had little experience in this matter, but Nadya would hold on.
The passengers were still wearing seat belts - after all, the display did not go out, the plane was just gaining altitude.
In the cabin, seeing a passenger rushing to the cabin and hearing the first shot, several people instantly unfastened their seat belts and jumped out of their seats. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and were the first to sense trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba, however, did not have time to take a step: they were ahead of them by the one who was sitting next to the one who had fled into the cabin. The young bandit - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be father and son - grabbed a sawn-off shotgun and fired along the cabin. The bullet whistled over the heads of the shocked passengers.
- Don `t move! - he yelled. - Do not move!

The pilots began to throw the plane from one position to another with even greater sharpness. The young man fired again. The bullet pierced the fuselage skin and came out right through.
Depressurization did not yet threaten the aircraft - the altitude was insignificant.
Opening the cockpit, she shouted to the crew with all her might:
- Attack! He's armed!
The moment after the second shot, the young man opened his gray cloak and people saw grenades - they were tied to his belt.
- This is for you! - he shouted. - If anyone else gets up, we'll blow up the plane!
It was obvious that this was not an empty threat - if they failed, they had nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the plane, the elder remained on his feet and with bestial fury tried to tear Nadya away from the door of the pilot's cabin. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.
Struck by Nadya’s incredible resistance, enraged by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloodied, fragile girl, he, without aiming, without thinking for a second, fired at point-blank range and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the corner of a narrow passage, burst into the cabin. Behind him is his geek with a sawed-off shotgun.
What followed was a massacre. Their shots were drowned out by their own cries:
- To Turkey! To Turkey! Return to the Soviet coast - we'll blow up the plane!

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The purpose of this article is to find out how the tragic death Soviet flight attendant NADEZHDA KURCHENKO into her FULL NAME code.

Watch "Logicology - about the fate of man" in advance.

Let's look at the FULL NAME code tables. \If there is a shift in numbers and letters on your screen, adjust the image scale\.

11 31 48 72 78 92 103 118 132 133 138 144 152 157 158 161 173 174 179 189 202 212 229 244 247 261 262
K U R C H E N K O N A D E ZH D A V L A D I M I R O V N A
262 251 231 214 190 184 170 159 144 130 129 124 118 110 105 104 101 89 88 83 73 60 50 33 18 15 1

14 15 20 26 34 39 40 43 55 56 61 71 84 94 111 126 129 143 144 155 175 192 216 222 236 247 262
N A D E J D A V L A D I M I R O V N A K U R C H E N K O
262 248 247 242 236 228 223 222 219 207 206 201 191 178 168 151 136 133 119 118 107 87 70 46 40 26 15

KURCHENKO NADEZHDA VLADIMIROVNA = 262.

K(end) + U(bit) + (ext)R(elom) (law)CHE(na) (life)N(b) + KO(net) + NA(pa)DE(nie) + (neo)F (i)DA(ny) V(quick)L + (r)A(nenie) (ser)D(tsa) +(as a result)I(e) (herb)M(s) I(effusion) (k)ROV (and) + (cum)NA

262 = K, + U, + ,R,CHE,N, + KO, + NA,DE, + ,F,DA, V,L + ,A,D, + ,I,M, I,ROV, + , ON THE.

16 48 67 81 82 87 110 111 130 145 151 166 177 196 228 230 247 279
P I T N A D C A T O E O K T I B R Y
279 263 231 212 198 197 192 169 168 149 134 128 113 102 83 51 49 32

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

P(penetrating)I + (fire)T(real) (ra)NA (ser)DCA + (death)T(eln)O(e) (wounded)E + O(t) (penetrating)K(which) ( fire)T(relnogo) (wounded)I (gi)B(el) + (slightly)R(telno) (wounded)I

279 = P,YA,T,NA,DCA + ,T,O,E + O,K,T,YA,B, + ,P,YA.

48 = PY(twelfth...)
______________________________
231 = (five)THE TEENTH OF OCTOBER

48 = (in y)POR
_______________________________
231 = SHOT IN THE HEART AT POINT BLANK

Number code full YEARS LIVES: NINETEEN = 157.

5 11 14 46 65 79 80 85 108 109 128 157
NINETEEN
157 152 146 143 111 92 78 77 72 49 48 29

262 = 157-NINETEEN + 105-DEAD.

157 - 105 = 52 = KILLED.

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(previously) DEV (belt) I (death) T (b) + (og) N (estrel) (wound) A (ser) DCA + (death) t

157 =,DEV,I,T, + ,N,A,DCA + ,TH.

Look at the column in the top table of the FULL NAME code:

157 = NINETEEN
____________________________
110 = (damage to) HEART(s)

157 = 87-LEFT WOUND + 70 DAMAGE...
______________________________________________
110 = (damage to) HEART(s)

157 = DEAD PREVIOUSLY (temporarily)
__________________________________
110 = (died) PREVIOUSLY (temporarily)

She was 19 years old. Beautiful girl stood in the way of armed bandits who hijacked an Aeroflot plane on October 15, 1970. This was the first time. Until this moment in the USSR there was no...

She was 19 years old. A beautiful girl stood in the way of armed bandits who hijacked an Aeroflot plane on October 15, 1970. This was the first time. Until this moment, there had been no aircraft hijackings in the USSR. Or have we never heard of them?

AN-24 took off from Batumi and began to move towards Sukhumi. An ordinary, unremarkable flight. Such flights were almost bus flights. Thirty minutes and landing. But it turned out that the course did not coincide with the plans of the bandits.

Radars recorded a sharp deviation from course towards Turkey. The plane was silent. Captains at sea were ordered to proceed to the possible crash site of the airliner. It never occurred to anyone that the plane had been hijacked.

A few minutes later, the instruments recorded that the plane had crossed the state border of the USSR. The crew fired a designated emergency landing signal from a flare gun.

The chassis rolled across foreign territory. Half an hour later, the whole world heard the message: the hijacking of a Soviet Union aircraft. A flight attendant was killed and passengers were injured.

...The girl Nadya was getting married. The wedding dress and white shoes are already ready. The wedding is scheduled for three weeks. And the commander is invited with the crew. An hour after takeoff, the commander realized that the wedding would not take place.

In the last hour of her young life, she was friendly and smiling. The spill was poured into Borjomi cups and carried into the cockpit. As always. The crew loved this modest girl.

Perhaps she was thinking about these people who would soon come to her wedding? She loved her job, she loved making people smile. After giving the crew a drink, she heard the flight attendant call.

The passenger handed over a piece of paper and ordered it to be urgently handed over to the crew. Printed on the sheet are requirements to change course and turn off radio communications with the ground. Otherwise the plane will be blown up.

The man who handed over the envelope was in full officer's uniform. They met their gazes, but the wolf's sensitivity is always higher than any other. He saw hostility in the young girl's eyes.

The shadow of danger threw him out of his chair after Nadya. Opening the compartment door, he realized that now this girl would ruin his plans. The shadow of the beast loomed over her. Nadya screamed. She was heard in the cockpit of the plane, and she decided to engage in battle with the enemy.

The young girl could not even imagine what the invader would do. Maniac? Mentally abnormal? He could... She couldn't let him into the cabin. Jumping, the bandit tries to knock her down. Nadya resisted. The bandit was ready for anything.

First shot. Nadya is wounded in the thigh. Nadya pressed her back against the cockpit, and he tried to grab her by the throat. She tries to knock the gun out, but...Second shot. Past. The girl resisted as best she could - she kicked and fought.

The commander quickly realized what was happening behind the door. The plane began to roll different sides, hoping to knock over the attacker. But the flight attendant will resist, she’s experienced. People are still wearing their seat belts.

The passenger rushed to help, but the second bandit jumped up and fired a gun into the passage. The passengers realized that there was no point in moving. And the pilot kept throwing the car from side to side.

Another shot at the plane's skin. The altitude was insignificant, and depressurization did not threaten the aircraft. Nadya screamed: “Attack! He's armed!" The invader opened his cloak. There were grenades hanging from his belt.

The plane will be blown up if they don't go abroad. He furiously tore at Nadezhda, who was clinging to the door. Some kind of gimmick doesn't let me into the cabin. The third shot - and the fragile, tender blue-eyed girl falls forever.

No one stands between the bandit and the pilot. Nadya fell. And the massacre began. They shot in the cockpit, although the pilots were needed for the aircraft to continue its journey to a foreign country.

Eighteen holes were in the plane's cabin after landing. Commander Chakhrakiya was wounded in the spine. A terrifying picture behind me. Dead Nadya and a seriously wounded navigator. The wounded flight mechanic Babayan groans.

Only co-pilot Shavidze was lucky. His bullets got stuck in the back of the chair. And the bandit was yelling, as if he was encouraging himself. Among the wild shouting, only the word Türkiye can be heard!

The passengers were ready to die. Criminals too. They kicked the fallen wounded, the chief of them told the commander that everything happens. Perhaps they will die. They can be shot down by Turkish air defenses.

A few minutes later the aircraft crossed the state border of the USSR. The activated SOS signal went off. They weren't shot down. They fired green rockets to clear the runway of Trabzon airfield.

The plane rolled along the wrong runway. It was immediately surrounded by Turkish security forces. The bandits immediately surrendered to authorities Turkish Republic. Urgent assistance was provided to all victims.

In broken Russian they offered political asylum to those who wanted it. There were no takers. The next day, all passengers left Turkey. The body of young Nadya Kurchenkov was also sent to the USSR.

The generation of the seventies remembers the stunning news about the death of a flight attendant who covered the entire male crew of the plane with her body. Her name was given to the school where she studied, and in several cities there are streets with a sign where her last name is written.

Peak mountain range, a small planet in deep space. There is even a personalized plane. For her courageous deed, the young girl was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle.

What happened to the hijackers? They were arrested and tried in Turkey, refusing to extradite them to the USSR authorities. Despite the rather severe punishment, they were granted an amnesty. And they were soon released.

Judging by subsequent events, Brazinskas Pranas and Algirdas - father and son - wanted to leave for America. But America refused the request for political asylum. The USA did not want a quarrel with the USSR.

Then the bandits bought tickets to Canada. The stopover in New York became the reason for their detention by immigration authorities. They were unable to obtain political status. But they were given American passports.

Father and son did not achieve success in America. They lived on unemployment benefits and lived in poverty. Algirdas, already a very old father, beat dumbbells. The head of the deceased turned into mush. The jury sentenced him to twenty years in prison.

How 45 years ago 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko stood in the way of armed bandits

Then, in October 1970, the very attempt at armed seizure civil aircraft looked like an unprecedented crime. Then terrorists of all stripes will start hunting for airliners around the world. It is worth rummaging through the memory - and immediately the hijacking of a Tu-154 flight to Pakistan by prisoners in a Yakut prison will appear, the hijacking of an Aeroflot flight in the Minvody by Shamil Basayev, the attack by terrorists on the World War II shopping center in New York and dozens more cases. And the first victim of air piracy was our flight attendant Nadya Kurchenko. The tragedy that shook the USSR became the reason for tightening control over safety on board civil courts. The fragile girl gave her life to save many others.

So, on October 15, 1970, a passenger An-24 took off from Batumi on the route Simferopol - Odessa. The plane had not yet gained altitude when two passengers, father and son Brazinskasa, called the flight attendant and, threatening with a sawed-off shotgun, conveyed a demand to the crew: to set a course for Turkey. Nadya managed to sound the alarm, block the bandits’ path to the pilot’s cabin, and was shot at point-blank range. The Brazinskas fired non-stop - both in the cockpit and in the cabin. Then there will be 18 bullet holes in the skin of the An-24! Navigator Valery Fadeev and flight mechanic Oganes Babayan were seriously injured. Pilot Giorgi Chakhrakiya's spine was shattered by a bullet, and he landed the plane in Turkish Trabzon with his legs almost giving out. Planted...

Turkish authorities returned the passengers and the plane, but refused to hand over the hijackers. Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas, after serving a short time in a Turkish prison, were released under an amnesty and moved to the United States. There they received new names, residence permits and a house in California. But it’s not for nothing that they say that God marks the rogue: in a quarrel, the younger Brazinskas killed his father, for which he received 16 years in prison.

The bestial nature of Nadya Kurchenko’s killers was fully revealed, but America was not even embarrassed. But the US authorities at one time ignored both the demands of the Soviet side to extradite the criminals and the letters of the crew members who remained disabled. The mother of the deceased flight attendant, Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko, secured a meeting with President Reagan at the American Embassy. After which the US State Department announced that “US concerns about international terrorism do not apply to the case of the Brazinskas.” And then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance declared the killers human rights activists.

Everything is stricter, and stricter, and stricter...

After the hijacking of the Batumi plane, the USSR took measures to improve security on board civil aircraft. On all passenger aircraft, the doors to the cockpits were strengthened and peepholes were installed. They started selling air tickets only using passports, and random luggage inspections were introduced at airports. Flights with routes near the state border were accompanied by police officers in plain clothes. Soviet Union became the 120th member of ICAO, ratified the Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft.

But on April 23, 1973, a new incident followed - this time with a Tu-104 en route from Leningrad to Moscow. The hijacker demanded to fly to Stockholm, and when attempting to land at a Soviet airport, he detonated an explosive device. The hijacker and crew commander were killed, and the passengers were rescued from the burning plane.

After that incident in civil aviation Mandatory screening of passengers was introduced, and metal detectors appeared at airports. Aircraft hijacking began to be classified as an independent type of crime, punishable by 15 years in prison and even the death penalty. To combat terrorism, on July 29, 1974, by order of KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov, a special unit was created - Group “A”.

And in the 1980-1990s, there was a new surge in air piracy in our country. We have even become a leader among European powers in this type of crime. And every time the flight attendants were the first to encounter the hijackers. Irina Viktorova is one of them.

“At Aeroflot, everyone knew the name Nadya Kurchenko, but I couldn’t imagine that something like that could happen to me,” Irina, who was a flight attendant at the Tbilisi air squad at that time, tells me. — In November 1983, our Tu-134 was en route to Batumi. On approach to Kutaisi we encountered a thunderstorm front, the commander decided to return. When I went out to inform the passengers about this, I saw a terrible picture. There was a guy with a grenade standing in the aisle. Another shot a pistol at the man sitting in front... As it later became known, seven hijackers from the Georgian “golden youth” registered in the deputy hall, bypassing the search. The bandits beat me up. They grabbed the flight attendant Valya and dragged her to the cockpit. The pilots saw her face through the peephole and opened the door. Navigator Vladimir Gasoyan opened fire to kill, and indiscriminate firing began. In this hell, fragile Valya pulled the wounded bandit away from the door and helped the pilots lock themselves in the cockpit. The crew miraculously managed to land the plane.

At the trial, the surviving hijackers were asked: “You are the children of wealthy parents—would you take tour packages and stay abroad.” The answer caused a shock: “And we wanted to fly away like the Brazinskas - with noise and shooting! Then we wouldn’t have been extradited...”

Nerves burn at work like this

But on March 18, 2005, Aeroflot flight attendant Anya Filatova was, one might say, lucky - like all 214 passengers flying on the Sydney-Tokyo-Moscow flight.

“We had already landed 15 kilometers from Sheremetyevo, and then the call light came on. I approached the passenger, the guy invited me to sit next to him. He shows there are explosives on his belt. Requires landing in Grozny. She reported to the commander, and she continued the conversation with the hijacker. Then I couldn’t remember what we talked about, how he reacted - such was the nervous tension. Fortunately, all ground and special services worked efficiently - the hijacker was neutralized. It turned out that he had a dummy bomb on his belt. But we seriously used up our nerves. That story came back to haunt me: a nervous breakdown, a hospital bed. I still sometimes dream about the eyes of that passenger...”

Instructions are instructions, but no one canceled courage

Today, much has been done in civil aviation to ensure that the tragedy of 45 years ago does not happen again. The pilot's cabin is securely reinforced, the door is always locked. Even a flight attendant can enter the cabin only after first contacting the crew. Well, what if a criminal managed to get on board and decide to hijack it? The official memo obliges the flight attendant to take additional measures to prevent the possible penetration of offenders into the pilot's cabin. To begin with, inform the commander of the situation in the cabin via intercom and attempt to convince the offenders that the crew is forced to fulfill their demands, so there is no need to enter there. Agree to hand over the note to the aircraft commander only if the offenders are in their places. In a detailed list of further necessary actions, in addition to instructions to distract and deter offenders from violence, they remind of the inevitability of criminal liability for this.

The instructions say nothing about personal courage. Apparently because our flight attendants take this quality for granted.

P.S. In Sukhumi they wanted to put that same An-24 on a pedestal in the park named after Nadezhda Kurchenko. But a difficult fate awaited that car. Aircraft No. 46586, having undergone major restoration at the Kiev Aircraft Repair Plant, later ended up in Soviet Uzbekistan. There he worked honestly on local tracks until 1997, after which he was cut up for scrap metal.

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