Who was the fiance of hope Kurchenko deceased stewardess. Last flight of Hope Kurchenko. Nerves are burning at such work
It was the first in the USSR the case of the seizure of this scale of the passenger aircraft (KHAYJEKING). From him, in essence, a long-term series of such tragedies began, splashing in the blood of innocent people of the skies of the whole world.
And everything began like that.
An-24 rose into the sky from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12 hours 30 minutes. Course - on Sukhumi. On board the aircraft there were 46 passengers and 5 crew members. Time in flight schedule - 25-30 minutes.
But life was broken and the schedule and the schedule.
At the 4th minute of the flight, the plane dismissed sharply from the course. Radio operators requested board - no response followed. Communication with the control and dispatch point was interrupted. The plane went towards close Turkey.
Military and rescue boats came out in the sea. Their captains received an order: to fully follow the place of a possible catastrophe.
Board did not answer any of the requests. A few more minutes - and An-24 left the USSR airspace. And in the sky over the Turkish coastal airfield Trabzon flashed two rockets - red, then green. It was an emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of someone else's air harbor. The telegraph agencies of the whole world immediately reported: the Soviet passenger aircraft was hijacked. The editorial is killed, there are wounded. Everything.
Black envelope
I flew to the PE place in a few hours. She flew, not knowing the circumstances of the drama, nor the surname of the murdered flight attendant. Everything had to find out in place.
Today, after 45 years, I intend to again - at least briefly - to state the events of those days and again say about Nak Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To say about the staggering reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time for sacrifice, courage, man courage. To say this, first of all, to people of a new generation, a new computer consciousness, to tell, as it was, for my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadia Kurchenko - and without reminders. And young people would not know why many streets, schools, mountain peaks and even the aircraft wear her name.
... After takeoff, greetings and instructions, the flight attendant returned to its desktop, a narrow compartment. She opened the Borjomi bottle and, giving water to shock with sparkling tiny nuclei, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Putting them on the tray, entered the cabin.
The crew was always pleased with the presence in the cockpit beautiful, young, extremely benevolent girl. Probably, she felt this attitude towards himself and, of course, rejoiced too. Perhaps and at this desiccious hour she with warmth and gratitude thought about each of these guys, easily who accepted it in their professional and friendly circle. They treated her as a younger sister, with care and confidence.
Of course, Nadi had a wonderful mood - they argued everything who saw her in the last minutes of her clean, happy life.
When drinking the crew, she returned to his compartment. At that moment, a call rang: someone from the passengers called the flight attendant. She approached. The passenger said:
- Tell the commander urgently, - and extended to her some kind of envelope.
"ATTACK! He is armed! "
Nadia took an envelope. Their views probably met. She probably wondered how these words were told. But it became nothing to find out, but stepped to the door of the luggage compartment - then there was a cap of the pilot cabin. Probably, the sensations of Nadi were written on her face - most likely. And the sensitivity of the wolf, alas, surpasses any other. And, probably, thanks to this sensitivity, the terrorist saw in the eyes of Nadi dislike, the subconscious suspicion, the shadow of danger. This turned out to be enough so that the sick imagination declared an alarm: a failure, sentence, exposing. The composure was refused: he literally catapulled from the chair and rushed after Nadi.
She managed to take only a step toward the pilot, when he opened the door of her compartment, just that it was closed.
- It's impossible! She screamed.
But he approached as the shadow of the beast. She understood: before her enemy. At the next second, he understood: she will break all the plans.
Nadya shouted again:
- Return to your place. It is impossible!
But he pulled out a weapon - the nerves burned down the ground. Nadia did not know his intentions. But I understood: he is absolutely dangerous. It is dangerous for the crew, dangerous for passengers.
She clearly saw a revolver.
Opening a pilot cabin, she shouted the crew of all his might:
- Attack! He is armed!
And at the same moment, having shuting the door of the cockpit, turned out to be a believed to the enjoyment of the bridal and prepared for the attack. He, as well as the crew members, heard her words - no doubt.
What remained to do? Nadia decided to: Do \u200b\u200bnot miss the attacker to the cockpit at any price. Any!
Trabzon. Freated flight passengers 244 cry from happiness.
Fighting on the last bore
He could be a maniac and shoot the crew. He could destroy the crew and passengers. He could ... She did not know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: having jumped to her, he tried to knock her down from his feet. Lost with his hands in the wall, Nadia was kept and continued to resist.
The first bullet fell into her thigh. She clutter even more tightly to the pilot door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock out a weapon from his right hand. Crazy bullet went to the ceiling. Nadia was fighting his legs, hands, even head.
The crew estimated the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn, in which they were in a minute of the attack, and immediately poured the roaring car left, and then to the right. At the next second, the plane went cool up: pilots tried to knock off the feet of the attacker, believing that his experience was small in this case, and Nadia would hold.
Passengers were still with belts - after all, the board did not go, the plane only gained height.
The young man opened her gray raincoat, and the passengers saw grenades - they were tied to the belt.
"This is for you! He shouted. - If anyone else stands, split the plane! "
In the cabin, seeing the passenger born to the cabin and having heard the first shot, several people instantly unzipped the belts and jumped up from the chairs. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and the first felt trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba did not have time, however, make a step: they were ahead of the one who sat next to those who killed in the cabin. A young gangster - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be a father and son - snatched the edge and shot along the salon. The bullet cleared over the heads of shocked passengers.
- Don `t move! He shouted. - Do not move!
Pilots with even greater sharpness began to throw the plane from one position to another. Young shot again. The bullet struck the fuselage trim and went out. The depressurization of the aircraft has not yet threatened - the height was insignificant.
In the next after the second shot, the MiG, the young man opened the gray cloak and people saw grenades - they were tied to the belt.
- This is for you! He shouted. - If anyone else stands - split the plane!
It was obvious that this is not an empty threat - in case of failure, they had nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the aircraft, the eldest remained on his feet and with the animal rage tried to tear out Nadu from the door of the pilot cabin. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.
The incredible Nadi resistance struck by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloated by a fragile girl, he, not going, without thinking, not thinking, he felt in the emphasis and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the angle of a narrow passage, broke into the cab. Behind him is his geek with a crop.
- To Turkey! To Turkey! Retnet to the Soviet bank - we will blow up the plane!
42 crew bullets
The next bullet pierced the back of the commander - Grigory Cahrakia. In order to keep in the body at least a bit of blood, so as not to lose consciousness and do not pick up the steering wheel, Gregory struggled to the back of the commander's chair. The next shot - the bullet paralyzes the right hand of the navigator Valery Fadeev and falls into the chest. In the hand - a microphone of communication, Fadeev loses consciousness, no one can open his hand with a microphone - each of the crew members is already wounded, Nadia is dead.
There is no way out: the plane should not fall into the sea - in the cabin 46 passengers, there are children. The second pilot sees: the commander still loses consciousness. Shavidze takes control over himself - leads a car as in a nightmare: in the bonding friends of friends, among the screaming criminals, under the threat of a cut and revolver, under the threat of a grenade.
When a coastal Turkish airfield is shown in a gray dream of reality, he produces emergency rockets to the sky. And the plane, punched forty two bullets, falls to someone else's hard ground ...
Look through the years
While alive hope ...
For courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded martial Order of the Red BannerThe name of Nadi was called a passenger aircraft, asteroid, schools, streets, and so on. But it should be said, apparently, about the other.
The scale of state, public actions related to an unprecedented event was huge. Members of the State Commission, the USSR Foreign Ministry led negotiations with the Turkish authorities a few days in a row without a single break.
Followed: to highlight the air corridor to return the stolen aircraft; Aerial corridor for crossing the troubleshtal hospitals of the wounded crew members and those passengers who needed urgent medical care; Of course, those who did not suffer physically, but turned out to be in a foreign land; A air corridor was required for the span of a special train from Trabzon in Sukhumi with a body Nadi. In Sukhumi, her mother was flying from Udmurtia.
There was a lot of worries. But all these dramatic actions could not smooth the acute loss pain - Nadia remained in the center of any conversations of a huge country, television and radio programs, newspapers.
In discussing the issue of the funeral, Nadi took a personal involvement of the Marshal Aviation, the Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR Boris Pavlovich Bugaev. I am twice - because of the circumstances - I spoke on the phone with the minister, who listened to the wishes, tips, requests to meet in Sukhumi Mother Nadi, decide on the burial place, other actions. Could something like this in our vigor days - care of the Minister of Superzava about the fate of the murdered flight attendants of a tiny relevant flight?
Not. Could not. I, in any case, I do not believe in it.
In Komsomolskaya, where I then worked (and was the first and only journalist from Moscow at the place of the tragedy), only in the first two weeks after even the fascinated censorship reports came over 12 thousand letters and telegrams from shocked readers who mourning Nadia and admiring her courage !
There was such a country. And there were such people. Is it possible today?
On the day of the funeral, Nadi over her littered with the colors of the coffin and over the heads of thousands of people walking on her coffin on the streets of the city, all aircraft that went to the flight was shared by wings, demonstrating tribute to their defender, their young colleague, their heroin. In each of these aircraft, the flight attendants with tears in their eyes were spoken by their passengers:
- Look down until the city is visible. This people say goodbye to our girlfriend. With our Nadi.
Do you believe that we are all the same?
... Mother Nadi, Henrietta Ivanovna, with whom I stood at the soba Nadi and who was dry and lifelessly repeated, looking at the strikingly beautiful face of his daughter:"Now you don't get laugh, you are serious,"gave me notes, notepad, nadus paper. Among them, I found the phrase of the student of the 9th grade of Hope Kurchenko:
"I want to be a decent daughter of the Motherland and is ready to give life for it, if necessary."
Here in these words familiar to hearing, but Nadi written by hand and heart, I believe absolutely.
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Bandits themselves punished themselves
The terrorists were the 46-year-old Lithuanian Pranas Brazinskas (in the photo on the right), a former Zavod from Vilnius, and his 13-year-old son Algirdas (left). The Turkish authorities refused to issue the criminals of the USSR and condemned them themselves. Senior received eight years, younger - two. After some time, both were freed by amnesty, and the gangsters moved to Venezuela, and from there in the United States: they went to New York from the aircraft heading to Canada. Lithuanian diaspora achieved permission to leave them in the country.
Brazinskas settled in California Santa Monica. In February 2002, 77-year-old Pranas quarreled with his son, for which he received several deadly strikes. Algirdas was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
"My as clear as you are far from me ..."
The people dedicated a feat of Hope Kurchenko song written quite differently ...
1973. The Soviet Union of the Pigeon flew the ballad "Star of My Clear". No one had doubted: the song is dedicated to the young stewardess, forever remaining in the sky. Killed three weeks before the wedding. And marks on behalf of her groom. Sad history to this day is replicated on the Internet. However, this is just a beautiful legend ...
Composer Vladimir Semenov:
"Many sang this song and sing. But it seems to me, the best of her performer was Sasha Losev ... "
The soloist of the student amateur ensemble, the winner of the district competition, where the main prize is a record of its own plate on the company "Melody" ...
The tragic halo who has gained a song, 22 years later, a black cloud covered her first artist. Shortly before his departure, Losev admitted that before he sang "My Clear" with one subtext, now - in memory of his early son. And failed a sad outcome:
"In an inexplicable way, the main song in the program has become the main thing in life."
The main song "Star" became in the life of the composer Vladimir Semenov. He was already 35 years old. Over the shoulders of Astrakhan, automobile and road technicians, homemade electric guitar and hundreds of kilometers on a seasoned bus, wheel with concert brigades of the Astrakhan Philharmonic ...
"Of course, I remember the story with the seizure of the plane, then I wrote a lot about the feat of Nadi," says Semenov. "But, to admit that I didn't think about anything when I took out a small builder of poems by Vologda poetess Olga Fokina from the store shelves. Literally 12-13 pages printed on fine newspaper paper. I started to flip them and suddenly stumbled upon the words "songs in people are different, and my one for centuries." Something hooked me in these lines. "
The song was born that Semenov showed her friend, Sergey Dyachkov's composer. He led Semenov to Stas Namina, who led the vocal instrumental ensemble. They recorded a small plate that pretended from three songs - Songs of Oscar Feltsman "There are eyes in colors", songs of Sergei Dyachkova "Do not" and Ballads Vladimir Semenova "My Clear Strider". It scattered around the country with a circulation of almost 7 million copies!
"After all the nervous rehearsals, records - I went with my wife to relax in Sochi, I recall the composer Vladimir Semenov today. - I am lying on the sand and suddenly I hear something familiar - somewhere in the distance saves the motor ship, huge, inturist, and from there the voice of Sasha Losev comes from there:
"People have different songs, and my one for the century!"
Vologda poetess Olga Fokina wrote these lines a few years before the tragedy on board An-24. Strits about their own, very personal. Her famous countryman, writer Fyodor Abramov said that Olga
"Very close to life, she always in verses is not fiction, not letters, not words - poems are generated by life itself ... they captivate, fascinate you with the sincerity, cleanliness and the immediacy of feelings."
Forty nine years ago, a hijacking of an airplane took place in the Soviet Union. An-24, flying from Batumi to Sukhum, was captured by Lithuanian terrorists.
Sputnik, Astana Ardzinba.
Capture
On October 15, 1970, the Soviet civilian aircraft An-24 flew from Batumi to Sukhum. The time in the way would take 30-35 minutes, but five minutes after the take-off, at 12:40 local time, two passengers in the first row caused a flight capacity and demanded to transfer the envelope to the pilots. It was printed in Vilnius "Order No. 9", in which the terrorists demanded to fly to Turkey and stop radio communication, for non-compliance with the order - death. At the same time, one of the terrorists declared passengers that there is no more Soviet power on their plane.
So the first seizure of the passenger aircraft began in the history of the USSR. On board were 46 passengers and five crew members.
The terrorists were Lithuanians, the Father and the Son of Brazinskas. Later, the competent authorities thoroughly learn all the stages of their lives. It turns out that Senior Brazinskas is a 45-year-old Pranas, an anti-communist, in 1944 he served in the auxiliary troops of the German division, where she collected pontoon bridges. Later, he supplied Lithuanian participants in the resistance of the weapon. In 1965, Pranas Brazinskas, working as the head of the warehouse of householders, received five years of the colony of the general regime for the embezzlement of socialist property, but it was conventionally relieved after three years, and in order not to tempt fate, he left with his son Algirdas to Uzbekistan.
But there, Pranas became the organizer of the local black market, the Son also participated in Father's Afrakh. When in 1970, the KGB became interested in Brazinskas, they decided to escape from the country, without inventing anything better, how to seize the plane.
However, these curious details of the biography of the invaders have not yet been known neither by the passengers of the board, nor the crew members.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Akimov
Turbuchnaya passenger aircraft "An-24"
19-year-old flight attendant of the Sukhumi Aviation Detachment Nadezhda Kurchenko rushed to pilots with a cry: "Attack!" - Terrorists rushed after her. "Do not get up to anyone!" Algirdas shouted. - Otherwise we will blow up the plane! " - Kurchenko tried to block the path to the cabin, and then Pranas focused her from the cut.
The terrorists burst into the cockpit and began to shoot the crew, wounding the commander, bornemaker and the navigator, did not suffer only the second pilot. Later they will explain that they deliberately decided to wander the three crew members, but not to kill, but one to leave unharmed so that he could lead the aircraft.
Standing behind his back at the pilots, Pranas Brazinskas shaking a grenade and ordered to take a course south, on Trabzon.
After about an hour and a half after the seizure, the aircraft landed in this Turkish city. Local special forces, which was warned about the incident, hooked the plane. Coming out of the plane, Brazinskas-senior said: "Here it is, freedom!" - Both terrorists voluntarily folded the weapons and gave up the police.
All crew members had medical care. Passengers and pilots were offered to stay in Turkey, but none of them did not accept this offer. After a day, the Soviet military aircraft took them all back to the USSR, and the body of the dead flight attendant of Hope Kurchenko was delivered by a special flight to Sukhum.
In memory of hope
The feat of the nineteen-year-old Hope Kurchenko, the graduate of the Piene boarding school of the Glazovsky district in Udmurtia, the flight attendants of the Sukhumi Aviation Detachment, did not remain unnoticed. In honor of Nadi, they wrote songs, called the parks and streets of Soviet cities, her name was named Small Planet No. 2349, open by scientists of the Crimean Observatory, the film "Applicient" was shot about it. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the courage and courage, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the Martial Order of the Red Banner posthumously.
© Sputnik / Lion Polykashin
The opening of the monument to the board capacity of Nadezhda Kurchenko, who died from the hands of the father and the son of Brazinskas, who captured the passenger aircraft An-24, who performed a regular flight No. 244 from Batumi to Sukhum.
Nadezhda Kurchenko was born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novopoltava Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. She graduated from boarding school in the village of Pokna, the Glazovsky District of the Udmurt ASSR. In December 1968, Nadia moved to Sukhum, where he began working as a flight attendant of the local airline. Young hope Kurchenko did not live two and a half months before his twentieth and three months before his wedding.
The body killed by the terrorists of the flight attendant was brought by Specrais from Trabzon to Sukhum, where her mother was already flying from Udmurtia. It was decided to bury Nadia Kurchenko in Sukhum, in one of the central parks, which to this day wears her name.
On the day of her funeral, thousands of people walked around the coffin on the streets of the city and carried flowers. And the aircraft, which went to the flight, was shared by the wings as a sign of respect for their young colleague.
Twenty years after the tragic death in 1990, the dust Nadi Kurchenko at the insistence of her mother was transported to Udmurtia, the remains of the heroine are now resting at the cemetery of her hometown of Glazov. In the school of young pilots in the capital of the Republic of Izhevsk, the museum of its name was opened, which was given the title of "folk".
Life "Under the supervision of the KGB"
Turkish authorities, largely due to the influence of the United States, did not issue terrorists to the Soviet Union. They were convicted: Father to eight years in prison, son - to two. But in less than two years, both bandits were freedom and managed to move to the United States, where the Lithuanian diaspora overturned them to citizenship. In the West, it was believed that Brazinskas could not be put in one row with other terrorists, allegedly they fight against the Soviet regime.
In America, they changed the names and surnames on Frank and Albert Whites and settled in the town of Santa Monica in California. Life at both has improved. Brazinskas Sr. first worked as Malar, and then became a co-owner of a weapon store. His son graduated from accounting courses, settled to work in the insurance company and married an American.
However, until the end of the life, Brazinskas-senior did not give peace of the Communist. It seemed to him that the houses were followed by the KGB agents who want to fight him back to the USSR. In the 1980s, he got into a chronicle several times when he led to the police station "KGB agents" into the police station - some first oncoming from the street.
In America, Algirdas wrote a book of memories of his own with the father of the "exploits", in which he tried to justify the capture and hijacking of the aircraft "the struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from the Soviet occupation", and also talked about the horrors of life in the Soviet Union. But even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the findings of Lithuania independence, Brazinskas were not returned to their homeland, still fearing the disguised agents of the KGB.
For old age, Brazinskas-senior became irritable, he often began to arise quarrels with her son. During one of these 45-year-old Algirdas scored her 77-year-old father of sports dumbbells. The court recognized him guilty and condemned for 16 years in prison.
Monument of Hope in Sukhum
In Sukhum in honor of Hope Kurchenko, a city park is named, in which a monument to brave stewardess was installed.
During the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia, the monument has suffered significantly, as it was subjected to constant shelling.
In 2010, the city administration allocated funds, the holes were shaked on the monument, but damage from strong shelling was affected when a tree fell on it - the monument fell apart in pieces.
In 2017, the monument will be restored and installed in the same place.
It was the first in the USSR the case of the seizure of this scale of the passenger aircraft (KHAYJEKING). From him, in essence, a long-term series of such tragedies began, splashing in the blood of innocent people of the skies of the whole world.
And everything began like that.
An-24 rose into the sky from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12 hours 30 minutes. Course - on Sukhumi. On board the aircraft there were 46 passengers and 5 crew members. Time in flight schedule - 25-30 minutes.
But life was broken and the schedule and the schedule.
At the 4th minute of the flight, the plane dismissed sharply from the course. Radio operators requested board - no response followed. Communication with the control and dispatch point was interrupted. The plane went towards close Turkey.
Military and rescue boats came out in the sea. Their captains received an order: to fully follow the place of a possible catastrophe.
Board did not answer any of the requests. A few more minutes - and An-24 left the USSR airspace. And in the sky over the Turkish coastal airfield Trabzon flashed two rockets - red, then green. It was an emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of someone else's air harbor. The telegraph agencies of the whole world immediately reported: the Soviet passenger aircraft was hijacked. The editorial is killed, there are wounded. Everything.
Black envelope
I flew to the PE place in a few hours. She flew, not knowing the circumstances of the drama, nor the surname of the murdered flight attendant. Everything had to find out in place.
Today, after 45 years, I intend to again - at least briefly - to state the events of those days and again say about Nak Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To say about the staggering reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time for sacrifice, courage, man courage. To say this, first of all, to people of a new generation, a new computer consciousness, to tell, as it was, for my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadia Kurchenko - and without reminders. And young people would not know why many streets, schools, mountain peaks and even the aircraft wear her name.
After takeoff, greetings and instructions, the flight attendant returned to its work room, a narrow compartment. She opened the Borjomi bottle and, giving water to shock with sparkling tiny nuclei, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Putting them on the tray, entered the cabin.
The crew was always pleased with the presence in the cockpit beautiful, young, extremely benevolent girl. Probably, she felt this attitude towards himself and, of course, rejoiced too. Perhaps and at this desiccious hour she with warmth and gratitude thought about each of these guys, easily who accepted it in their professional and friendly circle. They treated her as a younger sister, with care and confidence.
Of course, Nadi had a wonderful mood - they argued everything who saw her in the last minutes of her clean, happy life.
When drinking the crew, she returned to his compartment. At that moment, a call rang: someone from the passengers called the flight attendant. She approached. The passenger said:
Tell the commander urgently, - and handed it some kind of envelope.
"Attack! He is armed!"
Nadia took an envelope. Their views probably met. She probably wondered how these words were told. But it became nothing to find out, but stepped to the door of the luggage compartment - then there was a cap of the pilot cabin. Probably, the sensations of Nadi were written on her face - most likely. And the sensitivity of the wolf, alas, surpasses any other. And, probably, thanks to this sensitivity, the terrorist saw in the eyes of Nadi dislike, the subconscious suspicion, the shadow of danger. This turned out to be enough so that the sick imagination declared an alarm: a failure, sentence, exposing. The composure was refused: he literally catapulled from the chair and rushed after Nadi.
She managed to take only a step toward the pilot, when he opened the door of her compartment, just that it was closed.
It is impossible! She screamed.
But he approached as the shadow of the beast. She understood: before her enemy. At the next second, he understood: she will break all the plans.
Nadya shouted again:
Return to your place. It is impossible!
But he pulled out a weapon - the nerves burned down the ground. Nadia did not know his intentions. But I understood: he is absolutely dangerous. It is dangerous for the crew, dangerous for passengers.
She clearly saw a revolver.
Opening a pilot cabin, she shouted the crew of all his might:
Attack! He is armed!
And at the same moment, having shuting the door of the cockpit, turned out to be a believed to the enjoyment of the bridal and prepared for the attack. He, as well as the crew members, heard her words - no doubt.
What remained to do? Nadia decided to: Do \u200b\u200bnot miss the attacker to the cockpit at any price. Any!
Fighting on the last bore
He could be a maniac and shoot the crew. He could destroy the crew and passengers. He could ... She did not know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: having jumped to her, he tried to knock her down from his feet. Lost with his hands in the wall, Nadia was kept and continued to resist.
The first bullet fell into her thigh. She clutter even more tightly to the pilot door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock out a weapon from his right hand. Crazy bullet went to the ceiling. Nadia was fighting his legs, hands, even head.
The crew estimated the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn, in which they were in a minute of the attack, and immediately poured the roaring car left, and then to the right. At the next second, the plane went cool up: pilots tried to knock off the feet of the attacker, believing that his experience was small in this case, and Nadia would hold.
Passengers were still with belts - after all, the board did not go, the plane only gained height.
The young man opened her gray raincoat, and the passengers saw grenades - they were tied to the belt. "It's for you!" He shouted. - If anyone else stands, split the plane! "
In the cabin, seeing the passenger born to the cabin and having heard the first shot, several people instantly unzipped the belts and jumped up from the chairs. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and the first felt trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba did not have time, however, make a step: they were ahead of the one who sat next to those who killed in the cabin. A young gangster - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be a father and son - snatched the edge and shot along the salon. The bullet cleared over the heads of shocked passengers.
Don `t move! He shouted. - Do not move!
Pilots with even greater sharpness began to throw the plane from one position to another. Young shot again. The bullet struck the fuselage trim and went out. The depressurization of the aircraft has not yet threatened - the height was insignificant.
In the next after the second shot, the MiG, the young man opened the gray cloak and people saw grenades - they were tied to the belt.
This is for you! He shouted. - If anyone else stands - split the plane!
It was obvious that this is not an empty threat - in case of failure, they had nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the aircraft, the eldest remained on his feet and with the animal rage tried to tear out Nadu from the door of the pilot cabin. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.
The incredible Nadi resistance struck by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloated by a fragile girl, he, not going, without thinking, not thinking, he felt in the emphasis and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the angle of a narrow passage, broke into the cab. Behind him is his geek with a crop.
To Turkey! To Turkey! Retnet to the Soviet bank - we will blow up the plane!
42 crew bullets
The next bullet pierced the back of the commander - Grigory Cahrakia. In order to keep in the body at least a bit of blood, so as not to lose consciousness and do not pick up the steering wheel, Gregory struggled to the back of the commander's chair. The next shot - the bullet paralyzes the right hand of the navigator Valery Fadeev and falls into the chest. In the hand - a microphone of communication, Fadeev loses consciousness, no one can open his hand with a microphone - each of the crew members is already wounded, Nadia is dead.
There is no way out: the plane should not fall into the sea - in the cabin 46 passengers, there are children. The second pilot sees: the commander still loses consciousness. Shavidze takes control over himself - leads a car as in a nightmare: in the bonding friends of friends, among the screaming criminals, under the threat of a cut and revolver, under the threat of a grenade.
When a coastal Turkish airfield is shown in a gray dream of reality, he produces emergency rockets to the sky. And the plane, punched forty two bullets, falls to someone else's hard ground ...
Look through the years
While alive hope ...
For the courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the battle Order of the Red Banner, the Passenger Airplane, asteroid, schools, streets, and so on, was named after Nadi. But it should be said, apparently, about the other.
The scale of state, public actions related to an unprecedented event was huge. Members of the State Commission, the USSR Foreign Ministry led negotiations with the Turkish authorities a few days in a row without a single break.
Followed: to highlight the air corridor to return the stolen aircraft; Aerial corridor for crossing the troubleshtal hospitals of the wounded crew members and those passengers who needed urgent medical care; Of course, those who did not suffer physically, but turned out to be in a foreign land; A air corridor was required for the span of a special train from Trabzon in Sukhumi with a body Nadi. In Sukhumi, her mother was flying from Udmurtia.
There was a lot of worries. But all these dramatic actions could not smooth the acute loss pain - Nadia remained in the center of any conversations of a huge country, television and radio programs, newspapers.
In discussing the issue of the funeral, Nadi took a personal involvement of the Marshal Aviation, the Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR Boris Pavlovich Bugaev. I am twice - because of the circumstances - I spoke on the phone with the minister, who listened to the wishes, tips, requests to meet in Sukhumi Mother Nadi, decide on the burial place, other actions. Could something like this in our vigor days - care of the Minister of Superzava about the fate of the murdered flight attendants of a tiny relevant flight?
Not. Could not. I, in any case, I do not believe in it.
In "Komsomolskaya", where I then worked (and was the first and only journalist from Moscow at the place of the tragedy), only in the first two weeks after even the fascinated censorship reports came over 12 thousand letters and telegrams from shocked readers who mourning Nadia and admiring her courage !
There was such a country. And there were such people. Is it possible today?
On the day of the funeral, Nadi over her littered with the colors of the coffin and over the heads of thousands of people walking on her coffin on the streets of the city, all aircraft that went to the flight was shared by wings, demonstrating tribute to their defender, their young colleague, their heroin. In each of these aircraft, the flight attendants with tears in their eyes were spoken by their passengers:
Look down until the city is visible. This people say goodbye to our girlfriend. With our Nadi.
Do you believe that we are all the same?
Mother Nadi, Henrietta Ivanovna, with whom I stood at the coffin Nadi and that was dry and lifelessly repeated, looking at the strikingly beautiful face of my daughter: "Now you do not laugh at me, you have a serious thing," I handed me notes, notebooks, nadus paper. Among them, I found the phrase of the student of the 9th grade of Hope Kurchenko: "I want to be a decent daughter of the Motherland and is ready to give life for it, if necessary."
Here in these words familiar to hearing, but Nadi written by hand and heart, I believe absolutely.
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Bandits themselves punished themselves
The terrorists were the 46-year-old Lithuanian Pranas Brazinskas (in the photo on the right), a former Zavod from Vilnius, and his 13-year-old son Algirdas (left). The Turkish authorities refused to issue the criminals of the USSR and condemned them themselves. Senior received eight years, younger - two. After some time, both were freed by amnesty, and the gangsters moved to Venezuela, and from there in the United States: they went to New York from the aircraft heading to Canada. Lithuanian diaspora achieved permission to leave them in the country.
Brazinskas settled in California Santa Monica. In February 2002, 77-year-old Pranas quarreled with his son, for which he received several deadly strikes. Algirdas was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
1973. The Soviet Union of the Pigeon flew off the ballad "My Clear" ballad. No one had doubted: the song is dedicated to the young stewardess, forever remaining in the sky. Killed three weeks before the wedding. And marks on behalf of her groom. Sad history to this day is replicated on the Internet. However, this is just a beautiful legend ...
Composer Vladimir Semenov: "Many sang this song and sing. But it seems to me that the best of her performer was and remains Sasha Losev ..." The soloist of the student amateur ensemble, the winner of the district competition, where the main prize is a record of its own plate on the company "Melody" ...
The tragic halo who has gained a song, 22 years later, a black cloud covered her first artist. Shortly before his departure, loses recognized that before he sang "My Clear" with one subtext, now - in memory of his early son. And failed the sad outcome: "In an inexplicable way, the main song in the program has become the main thing in life."
The main song "Star" became in the life of the composer Vladimir Semenov. He was already 35 years old. Over the shoulders of Astrakhan, automobile and road technicians, homemade electric guitar and hundreds of kilometers on a seasoned bus, wheel with concert brigades of the Astrakhan Philharmonic ...
"Of course, I remember the story with the seizure of the aircraft, then I wrote a lot about the feat of Nadi," says Semenov. "But, to admit that I didn't think about such a thing when I took a small builder of poems of Vologda poetess Olga Fokina. Literally 12- 13 pages printed on fine newspaper paper. I started to flip them off and suddenly stumbled upon the words "songs in people are different, and my one on the century." Something hooked me in these lines. "
The song was born that Semenov showed her friend, Sergey Dyachkov's composer. He led Semenov to Stas Namina, who led the vocal instrumental ensemble. They recorded a small plate that pretended from three songs - Oscar Feltsman's songs "There are eyes in colors", songs of Sergei Dyachkova "Don't" and the ballads of Vladimir Semenov "My Clear". It scattered around the country with a circulation of almost 7 million copies!
"After all the nervous rehearsals, records - I went with my wife to relax in Sochi, I remember the composer Vladimir Semenov today." I'm lying on the sand and suddenly I hear something familiar - somewhere in the distance saves the ship, huge, inturist, and from there. Sasha Losev's voice: "People have different songs, and my one for a century!"
Vologda poetess Olga Fokina wrote these lines a few years before the tragedy on board An-24. Strits about their own, very personal. Her famous countryman, writer Fyodor Abramov, said that Olga "is very close to life, she always in verses not fiction, not letters, not words - poems are generated by life itself ... they captivate, fascinate you with the sincerity, cleanliness and spontaneity of feelings .
All those who are remembered and forever remained in the people's memory Nadia Kurchenko.
Exactly 45 years ago, our housekeeper went to his last flight - the flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko. In a fight with terrorists, she died, defending the crew and passengers of the aircraft.
Forty five years ago, October 15, 1970, the terrorists for the first time in the world seized a passenger aircraft. It happened in the Soviet Union in the sky over the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Close up of pilots from an angry armed gangster tried fragile young stewardess - a native of the Altai Territory Nadezhda Kurchenko. IA "Amitel" proposes to remember the chronicle of these tragic events.
View from the Earth
An-24 rose into the sky from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12 hours 30 minutes. Course - on Sukhumi. On board the aircraft there were 46 passengers and five crew members. Time in flight schedule - 25-30 minutes. But life was broken and the schedule and the schedule.
On the ninth minute, the aircraft rejected sharply from the course. Radio operators requested board - no response followed. Communication with the control and dispatch point was interrupted. The plane went towards close Turkey. Military and rescue boats came out in the sea. Their captains received an order: to fully follow the place of a possible catastrophe.
Board did not answer any of the requests. A few more minutes - and An-24 left the USSR airspace. And in the sky over the Turkish coastal airfield Trabzon broke out two rockets - red, then green. It was an emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of someone else's air harbor. The telegraph agencies of the whole world immediately reported: the Soviet passenger aircraft was hijacked. The editorial is killed, there are wounded. Everything.
View from childhood
In the Soviet Union, the status of stewardess was only a little lower than the film actress or pop singer. They wrote plays about them, filmed movies, they were dedicated to the songs. Nadya Kurchenko was born on December 29, 1950 in the Altai Territory.
Her childhood is dense forests near the native village of Novo Poltava (Klyuchevsky district), excellent grades in school, a large and friendly company of peers. Later, Nadi's family moved to the mother's motherland, Henrietta Semenovna, in the village of Poklyo Glazovsky district (Udmurtia).
After graduating from school, Nadia went to the distant southern city of Sukhumi, where he began to work first in the airport accounting, and when she turned 18 years old, went to the work of the flight attendants.
In the first year of work, the first serious test came - a fire on board the aircraft and the need for a landing with one engine. For the impeccable fulfillment of their duties in an emergency, Hope Kurchenko was awarded with registered hours.
Hope had many plans: admission to the Law Institute, marriage with a school friend Vladimir Borisenko. In May 1970, Nadezhda came on vacation to his relatives. Agreed that the wedding will play on the November or New Year holidays. And on October 15, the girl went to his last departure.
View from the aircraft
Flight 244 from Batumi to Krasnodar landing in Sukhumi was considered short and simple, from Batumi to Sukhumi, only half an hour of summer. 46 people rose on the an-24. Among them was a middle-aged man with the fifteen-year-old Son - Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskasi.
Ten minutes after the take-off, a Brazinskas-Senior, who was sitting next to the service compartment, called Hope Kurchenko and told her to attribute an envelope with a note to the cockpit. Mashinctural text contained the requirement to change the route and the threat of death in the case of disobedience. The geek with a weapon went to the cockpit of pilots, but on his way a fragile flight attendant got up.
Further in the plane began a slaughter. The first bullet hit the hope of the thigh. She clutter even more tightly to the pilot door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock out a weapon from his right hand. Crazy bullet went to the ceiling.
Nadia was fighting his legs, hands, even head. The incredible Nadi resistance struck by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloated by a fragile girl, he, not going, without thinking, not thinking, he felt in the emphasis and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the angle of a narrow passage, broke into the cab.
The slaughterhouse continued at the pilots. Valery Fadeev's navigator were wounded, the bornemaker Oganes Babayan, Pilot, George Chambers, a bullet, crushed the spine. The wounded pilots planted the liner in the nearest Turkish Trabzon. Already then, investigators counted 42 bullets.
The Turkish authorities were condescending to the hijackers - afterceiving a short time and freed by amnesty, they moved to the United States, but this is a completely different story.
Afterword
Nadezhda Kurchenko was buried in Sukhumi in the form of stewardess and with the Komsomol icon; After 20 years, at the request of her mother, the dust was reburied in the eye. The name of the hopes called the tanker, the peak of the Gissar Range and the planet in the constellation of Capricorn. In addition, after the death of the flight attendant Kurchenko, passenger safety rules were radically changed in flights and the norms of international laws against air terrorism were tightened.
It seems that the point in the heavenly tragedy decided to put the sky itself. In early 2002, the reports flashed a message about the fact that in California Santa Monica, 46-year-old Albert Viktor White Baseball bat was killed his father. Albert turned out to be former Algirdas, killed - Ex-Pranas. Now Brazinskas-senior in the grave, the younger - in prison.
