Kurchenko Nadezhda -Turdeszka is my clear star - song. Post memory of the Soviet stewardess of Hope Kurchenko, who died in the sky from the Pool of Terrorists of Memory of Hope Kurchenko

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.

PAY

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.

On October 15, it was 47 years old from the day of the death of 19-year-old Stewardess of Hope Kurchenko, which at the cost of his own life was trying to prevent the seizure of the Soviet passenger aircraft by terrorists. The history of the heroic death of a young girl is waiting for you next.

2. The 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. Touch 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. All. Allows Georgy Chakhrakia - Crew Commander An-24, №46256, who opened on October 15, 1970, flight on the route Batumi - Sukhumi: "I remember everything. I remember. Such things are not forgotten. That day I NADE said: "We agreed that you consider us our brothers in life. So why are you not frank with us? I know that soon you will have to walk at a wedding ... "- recalls the flyer with sadness. - raised blue eyes, smiled and said: "Yes, probably, on the November holidays." I was delighted and, by shaking the wings of the plane, shouted at the whole voice: "Guys! For the holidays we walk at the wedding! "... And after an hour I knew that there would be no wedding ... 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 about this, first of all, people of a new generation, a new computer consciousness, 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 a Borjomi bottle and, giving water to shock with glittering tiny nuclei, filled four plastic cups for the crew. After putting them on the tray, entered the cabin. The ship was always pleased with the presence in the cockpit beautiful, young, extremely friendly 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 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.

3. When drinking the crew, she returned to his compartment. Five minutes after the take-off (at an altitude of about 800 meters), a man and a guy who were sitting on the front armies were called a flight attendant and gave her an envelope: "Tell the crew commander!" In the envelope was a printed "Order No. 9" printing machine: 1. I order to fly on the specified route.
2. Stop radio communication.
3. For non-compliance with the order - death.
(Free Europe) P.K.Z.TS.
The general (wings) on the sheet stood the seal on which the Lithuanian was written: "... Rajono Valdybos Kooperatyvas" ("Cooperative Management ... District"). The man was dressed in the Parade form of the Soviet officer. 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. 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. Anyone! 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 ship raised the situation instantly. The commander sharply interrupted the right turn, in which there was a plane per 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. The passengers were still with belts - after all, the board did not go, the plane only gained his height. In the cabin, seeing the passenger's cabin and hearing the first shot, several people instantly unbutton his belts and jumped out of his 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. - Nor from the place! 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. Opening the pilot cabin, Nadia shouted the crew of all his might: - Attack! He is armed! In the next moment, the MiG young man opened a gray cloak, and people saw grenades - they were tied to the belt. - This is for you! He shouted. - If anyone else stands - we will blow up the plane! It was obvious that this is not an empty threat - in case there was 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.

4. The incredible Nadi resistance struck by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloated by a fragile girl, he, not aiming, without thinking not by a second, shot focusing 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. Yester was a slaughter. Their shots were joined by their screams: - To Turkey! To Turkey! Retnet to the Soviet bank - we will blow up the plane! "Bullee flew from the cabin. One went through my hair, "Leningradets says Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov. They and his wife in the 1970s were passengers of a ill-fated flight. "I saw: the gangsters had pistols, a hunting rifle, one pomegranate hung on his chest. The aircraft threw the left-right - pilots, probably, hoped that the criminals would not stand on the legs. "Street continued in the cockpit. There are 18 samples there, and 24 bullets were released. One of them fell into the spine. Georgi Chahrakia: "My legs were taken away. Through the efforts, I turned around and saw a terrible picture: Nadia was lying on the floor in the doors of our cabin and expired blood. Nearby lay navigan Fadeev. And behind we had a man and, shaking grenade, shouting: "Keep the shore of the sea on the left! Course south! In the clouds not to enter! It is obsessed, and I will not blow up the plane! "" The criminal is not ceremony. Tedied with pilots radio headphones. Turning along the lying bodies. The boremochnik Oganes Babayan was injured in the chest. In the second pilot, Suliko Shavidze was also shot, but he was lucky - the bullet was stuck in the steel side of the seat back. When the navigator Valery Fadeev came to himself (he had a sniffer), the gangster swore and hit the foot-wounded foot. Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov: "I said to my wife:" Let's fly towards Turkey! " - And frightened that when we arrive to the border, we could knock down. I also noticed: "For us, the sea. You feel good. You know how to swim, but I'm not! " And I thought: "What a stupid death! The whole war was held, signed on Reichstag - and on you! "" Pilots still managed to turn on the SOS signal. Georgy Chakhrakia: "I gangsters said:" I am wounded, my legs paralyzed. I can only manage your hands. I have to help the second pilot. " And the gangster replied: "Everything happens in war. We can and die. " I even flashed the thought to send "Annushka" to the rocks - to die ourselves and the bastards of these to finish. But in the cabin 44 people, including 17 women and one child. I said to the second pilot: "If I lose consciousness, lead the ship on the demand of the bandits and plant. You need to save the aircraft and passengers! "We tried to sit in the Soviet territory, in Kobuleti, where there was a military airfield. But the hijacker, when I saw where I am aiming the car, warned that he would shoot me and would blow up the ship. I decided to cross the border. And in five minutes we crossed it at a low altitude. "... The airfield in Trabzon was visually visually. For pilots, this was not difficult. Georgy Chakhrakia: "We made a circle and let the green rockets allowed to understand to be freed by the strip. Side the mountains and sat down so that, what happens to, land on the sea. We immediately hooked. The second pilot opened the front doors, and the Turks entered. In the cabin gangsters surrendered. All this time, while the local people did not appear, we were under the downtown ... "Going out of the salon after the passengers, the eldest gangster knocked his fist by car:" This plane is now our! " Turks assisted medical care to all crew members. Immediately offered those who wish to stay in Turkey, but none of 49 Soviet citizens agreed. The next day of all passengers and the Body Nadi Kurchenko was taken to the Soviet Union. A little later overtakes vindicate an-24. For courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the battle Order of the Red Banner, the Passenger Airplane, Asteroid, Schools, Streets, and so on, were named after Nadi. But it should be said, apparently, about the friend. The social, public actions related to an unprecedented event were 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.

5. 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 already flying from Udmurtia. The mother of Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko: "I immediately requested that I was buried in Udmurtia. But I was not allowed. They said that from a political point of view it is impossible to do.

6. And twenty years I went to Sukhumi every year at the expense of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In 1989, we arrived with the grandson for the last time, and the war began there. The Abkhazians fought with the Georgians, and the grave was launched. We walked on foot, near the shot - everyone was ... And then I cheekily wrote a letter to Gorbachev: "If you do not help you transport Nadia, I will go and hang on her grave!" A year later, daughter reburied in the city cemetery in the eye. We wanted to bury separately, on Kalinin Street, and Rename the street in honor of Nadi. But I did not allow. She died for people. And I want her to lay with people. "Surprise after hijacking in the USSR appear missing messages TASS:" On October 15, the An-24 civilian air fleet aircraft performed a regular flight from the city of Batumi in Sukhumi. Two armed gangsters, applying weapons against the aircraft team, forced the plane to change the route and land on Turkey in the city of Trabzon. During the fight with the bandits, the aircraft conductor was killed, which tried to block the gangsters to the pilot cabin. Two pilots were injured. Passengers of the aircraft are invalid. The Soviet government appealed to the Turkish authorities with a request to issue killer criminals for legend to their Soviet court, as well as return the plane and Soviet citizens who were on board the An-24 aircraft. "

8. Only November 5, after a press conference of the Prosecutor General of the USSR, after a press conference of the Prosecutor General of the USSR, Rudenko. Brasinskas Pranas Stasio. 1924 Barzinskas Algirdas 1955. Written by Brazinskas in 1949, the "Forest Brothers" shot through the window was killed by the Chairman of the Council and the father of P. Brazinskas was mortally injured, accidentally turned around. With the help of local authorities, P. Brazinskas acquired a house in Veivis and in 1952 he became the head of the warehouse of household goods of the Veyevis cooperative. In 1955, the embezzlement and speculation of building materials P. Brazinskas was convicted for 1 year of correctional work. In January 1965, by decision of the Supreme Court, he was again convicted, already for 5 years, but in June, he was ahead of schedule. Satisfied with the first wife, went to Central Asia. Related by speculation (in Lithuania, car spare parts, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sent parcels to Central Asia, had a profit of 400-500 rubles for each parcel), quickly accumulated money. In 1968, he brought his thirteen-year-old son Algirdas to Kokand, and in two years left the second wife.7-13 of October 1970, the last time having been in Vilnius, P. Brazinskas with her son took his baggage - unknown where acquired weapons accumulated dollars (According to the KGB, more than 6,000 dollars) - and flew to the Transcaucasia. In October 1970, the USSR demanded that Turkey immediately dismissed criminals, but this requirement was not fulfilled. The Turks decided to judge the hijackers themselves. The court of first instance of Trabzon did not recognize the attack intentional. In his justification, Pranas stated that the plane was born in the face of death, allegedly threatened him for participating in the "Lithuanian resistance". According to the 45-year-old Pranas Brazinskas for eight years in prison, and his 15-year-old son Algirdas - to two. In May 1974, his father fell under the Act of Amnesty, and the prison conclusion of Brazinskas-senior was replaced by home arrest. In the same year, the father with his son was supposedly disappeared from under house arrest and appealed to the US Embassy in Turkey with a request to provide them with political asylum in the United States. Having received a refusal, Brazinskas again surrendered to the hands of the Turkish police, where they were launched a couple of weeks and ... finally released free. Then, through Italy and Venezuela, they flew to Canada. During the intermediate landing in New York, Brazinskas came out of the plane and were "detained" by the Migration and Naturalization Service of the United States. They did not provide the status of political refugees, but for a start, they provided residence permit, and in 1983 they gave both American passports. Algirdas was officially made by Albert Viktor White, and Pranas - Frank White.

9. Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko: "By seeking Brazinskas, I even went to a meeting with Reagan to the American Embassy. I was told that the Father is looking for, as he is illegally living in the USA. And the son received American citizenship. And it cannot be punished. Nadia was killed in 1970, and the law on the issuance of bandits, wherever they were, allegedly came out in 1974. And there will be no refund ... "Brazinskas settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked with ordinary malaries. In America in the Lithuanian community, the attitude towards Brazinskas was wary, they were frankly afraid. An attempt to organize the collection of funds to the fund of own aid failed. In the US, Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits", in which they tried to justify the capture and hijacking of the aircraft "The struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from Soviet occupation." To blame himself, P. Brazinskas stated that he was in the flight attendant by chance, in a "shootout with the crew". Even later, A. Brazinskas argued that the flight atrochet was died during a "shootout with Agents KGB." However, the support of Brazinskas Lithuanian organizations gradually went to no, they all forgot about them. Real life in the United States was very different from what they expected. The criminals lived slaughter, the Brazinskas-senior older became irritable and unbearable. In the beginning of February 2002, the California City of Santa Monica rang out a call. Called immediately hung up. The police have identified the address from where they called and arrived at the 900 Street house. The door by the police opened the 46-year-old Albert Viktor White and held servants of the law to the cold corpse of his 77-year-old father, on whose head, the Jewece Experts then counted eight blows from dumbbells. It rarely killed in Santa Monica - it was the first for the year for violent death in the city. Jack Alex, the lawyer of Brazinskas Jr.: - I am Lithuanian himself, and defend Albert Viktor White hired of me Virginia. Here, in California, a rather numerous Lithuanian diaspora, and you do not think that we, Lithuanians, at least some support the seizure of the 1970 aircraft.
- Pranas was a terrible person, it happened, in the attacks of rabies, he chased with a weapon for neighboring children.
- Algirdas is a normal and sensible person. At the time of the capture he was only 15 years old, and he hardly thought what he was doing. He spent his whole life in the shadow of the dubious charisma of his father, and now, according to his own guilt, he gng in prison.
- It was the necessary self-defense. Father sent a gun on him, threatening to shoot his son if he quit him. But Algirdas knocked his weapon from him and hit the old man several times on his head.
- The jury considered that, knocking the gun, Algirdas could not kill the old man, since he was very weak. Even against Algirdas played the fact that he called the police only in a day after what happened - all this time he was near the corpse.
- Algirdas was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the article "The deliberate Murder of the Second Degree".
- I know that it sounds not barely, but let me express my condolences to Algirdas. When I last saw him, he was in a terrible depression. The father terrorized his son as he could, and so, when Tirana finally did not, Algirdas, a man in the heyday, will be reinforced for many years in prison. Apparently, this is fate ... Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970). Born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novo Poltava Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. He graduated from boarding school in the village of Pokna Glazovsky district of the WASSR. Since December 1968, the flight attendant of the Sukhumi airline. Died on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent the hijacking of the aircraft by terrorists. In 1970, he was buried in the center of Sukhumi. After 20 years, her grave was postponed to the urban graveyard. Awarded (posthumously) Order of the Red Banner. The name of Hope Kurchenko was assigned to one of the peaks of the Gissar Range, the Tanker of the Russian Fleet and the Little Planet.

On October 15, 45 years from the day of the death of 19-year-old stewardess of Hope Kurchenko, which at the cost of his own life was trying to prevent the seizure of the Soviet passenger aircraft by terrorists. The history of the heroic death of a young girl is waiting for you next.

It was the first case of the seizure of this scale of the passenger aircraft (Heijeking). 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.

Heorgy Chakhrakia recalls - the crew commander An-24, No. 46256, which opened on October 15, 1970 by the flight on the route Batumi-Sukhumi - I remember everything. I remember.

Such things are not forgotten, - That day I NADE said: "We agreed that in life you consider us our brothers. So why are you not frank with us? I know that soon you will have to walk at the wedding ... "- remembers the flyer with sadness. "The girl raised blue eyes, smiled and said:" Yes, probably, on the November holidays. " I was delighted and, by shaking the wings of the plane, shouted into the whole voice: "Guys! For holidays we walk at the wedding! "... And in an hour I knew that there would be no wedding ...

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 about this, first of all, people of a new generation, a new computer consciousness, 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 extended to her some kind of envelope.

At 12.40. Five minutes after the takeoff (at an altitude of about 800 meters), a man and a guy, sitting on the front armies, called a flight attendant and gave her an envelope: "Tell the crew commander!" In the envelope was printed on the printed type "Order No. 9":
1. I order to fly on the specified route.
2. Stop the radio link.
3. For non-compliance with the order - death.
(Free Europe) P.K.Z.TS.
General (wings)
The sheet was stood on the seal, on which the Lithuanian was written: "... Rajono Valdybos Kooperatyvas" ("Cooperative control ... district"). The man was dressed in the Parade form of the Soviet officer.

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.
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 members of the crew, 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!
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.
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.

Opening a pilot cabin, she shouted the crew of all his might:
- Attack! He is armed!
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 - we will blow up a 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.
Then there was a slaughter. Their shots were joined by their screams:
- To Turkey! To Turkey! Retnet to the Soviet bank - we will blow up the plane!

Bullets flew out of the cab. One went through my hair, "Leningradets says Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov. They and his wife in the 1970s were passengers of a ill-fated flight. "I saw: the gangsters had pistols, a hunting gun, one pomegranate hung on his chest. The plane threw the left-right - pilots, probably, hoped that criminals would not stand on their feet.

Shooting continued in the cockpit. There are 18 samples there, and 24 bullets were released. The commander was one of them in the spine:
Georgy Chakhrakia - My legs were taken away. Through the efforts, I turned around and saw a terrible picture, Nadia was lying on the floor in the doors of our cabin and expired blood. Nearby lay navigan Fadeev. And behind the back we had a man and, shaking grenade, shouting: "Keep the shore of the sea on the left! Course south! In the clouds not to enter! Obey, and I do not blow up the plane! "

The criminal is not ceremony. Tedied with pilots radio headphones. Turning along the lying bodies. The boremochnik Oganes Babayan was injured in the chest. In the second pilot, Suliko Shavidze was also shot, but he was lucky - the bullet was stuck in the steel side of the seat back. When the navigator Valery Fadeev came to himself (he had a lot of light), the gangster cursed and hit the foot-wounded foot.
Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov - I said to my wife: "Let's fly in the direction of Turkey!" - And frightened that when we arrive to the border, we could knock down. The wife still noticed: "We are sea. You feel good. You know how to swim, but I'm not! " And I thought: "What a stupid death! The whole war was held, signed on the Reichstag - and on you! "

Pilots still managed to turn on the SOS signal.
Georgy Chakhrakia - I gangsters said: "I was injured, my legs paralyzed. I can only manage your hands. I have to help the second pilot, "and the gangster answered:" Everything happens in war. We can and die. " I also flashed the thought to send "Annushka" to the rocks - to die ourselves and the bastards of these to finish. But in the cabin, forty-four people, including seventeen women and one child.
I said to the second pilot: "If I lose consciousness, lead the ship on the demand of the bandits and plant. You need to save the aircraft and passengers! We tried to sit in Soviet territory, in Kobuleti, where there was a military airfield. But the hijacker, when I saw where I am aiming the car, warned that he would shoot me and would blow up the ship. I decided to cross the border. And in five minutes we crossed it at a low altitude.
... The airfield in Trabzon found visually. For pilots, this was not difficult.

Georgy Chakhrakia - we made a circle and let green rockets allowed to understand to be freed by the strip. Side the mountains and sat down so that, what happens to, to land on the sea. We immediately hooked. The second pilot opened the front doors, and the Turks entered. In the cabin gangsters surrendered. All this time, while local people appeared, we were under the downtown ...
Leaving the salon after the passengers, the eldest gangster knocked his fist by car: "This plane is now our!"
Turks assisted medical care to all crew members. Immediately offered those who wish to stay in Turkey, but none of 49 Soviet citizens agreed.
The next day of all passengers and the Body Nadi Kurchenko was taken to the Soviet Union. A little later overtakes vindicate an-24.

For courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the battle Order of the Red Banner, the Passenger Airplane, Asteroid, Schools, Streets, and so on, were 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.

Mom tells the mother of Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko: "I immediately asked for Nadia to have buried in Udmurtia." But I was not allowed. They said that from a political point of view it is impossible to do.

And now twenty years I went to Sukhumi every year at the expense of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In 1989, we arrived with the grandson for the last time, and the war began there. The Abkhazians fought with the Georgians, and the grave was launched. We went to Natya on foot, near the shot - everyone was ... And then I cheekily wrote a letter to Gorbachev: "If you don't help you transport Nadia, I will go and hang on her grave!" A year later, daughter reburied in the city cemetery in the eye. We wanted to bury separately, on Kalinin Street, and Rename the street in honor of Nadi. But I did not allow. She died for people. And I want her lying along with people ..

Immediately after the hijacking in the USSR, there are missing TASS messages:
"On October 15, the An-24 civilian air fleet plane made a regular flight from Batumi in Sukhumi. Two armed gangsters, applying weapons against the aircraft team, forced the plane to change the route and land on Turkey in the city of Trabzon. During the fight with the bandits, the aircraft conductor was killed, which tried to block the gangsters to the pilot cabin. Two pilots were injured. Passengers of the aircraft are invalid. The Soviet government appealed to the Turkish authorities with a request to issue killer criminals for legend to their Soviet court, as well as return the aircraft and Soviet citizens who were on board the An-24 aircraft.

The next day, on October 17, "Tassovka" reported that the crew of the aircraft and passengers were returned to their homeland. True, in the hospital of Trabzon, he left serious injured in the chest of an airplane navigator, which was made operation. Names of hijackers are not called: "As for the two criminals who committed an armed attack on the crew of the aircraft, as a result of which the flight attendant N.V. Kurchenko was killed, two crew members were injured and one passenger was injured, the Turkish government stated that they were arrested and the prosecution authorities were given Note to conduct an urgent investigation of the circumstances of the case. "

The personal pirates of the general public became known only on November 5 after a press conference of the Prosecutor General of the USSR Rudenko.
Brazinskas Pranas Stasio 1924 born and Brazinskas Algirdas 1955 g.
Pranas Brazinskas was born in 1924 in the Trakai District of Lithuania.

According to the biography written by Brazinskas in 1949, the "Forest Brothers" shot through the window was killed by the Chairman of the Council and the Father P.Bazinskas was fatally injured nearby. With the help of local authorities, P.Bazinskas purchased a house in Veivis and in 1952 he became the head of the warehouse of household goods of the Vejesky cooperative. In 1955, for the embezzlement and speculation, construction materials P.Bazinskas was convicted for 1 year of correctional work. In January 1965, by decision of the Supreme Court, he was again convicted for 5 years, but in June, he was unrest for ahead of time. Sporting with the first wife went to Central Asia.

She was engaged in speculation (in Lithuania, car spare parts, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sent parcels in Central Asia, had a profit of 400-500 rubles for each parcel), quickly accumulated money. In 1968, he brought his thirteen-year-old son Algirdas to Kokand, and two years later - left the second wife.

October 7-13, 1970, the last time having visited Vilnius, P.Bazinskas with his son took his baggage - it is unknown where the acquired weapons accumulated dollars (according to the KGB, more than $ 6,000) and flew in the Transcaucasus.

In October 1970, the USSR demanded that Turkey immediately dismissed criminals, but this requirement was not fulfilled. The Turks decided to judge the hijackers themselves. The court of first instance of Trabzon did not recognize the attack intentional. Pranas stated in his justification, they say, they hid the plane in the face of death, allegedly threatened him for participating in the "Lithuanian resistance". And the 45-year-old Pranas Brazinskas sentenced to eight years in prison, and his 13-year-old son Algirdas - to two. In May 1974, his father fell under the Act of Amnesty and the prison concluding of Brazinskas-senior replaced at home arrest. In the same year, the father with his son was supposedly disappeared from under house arrest and appealed to the US Embassy in Turkey with a request to provide them with political asylum in the United States. Having received a refusal, Brazinskas again surrendered to the hands of the Turkish police, where they were launched a couple of weeks and ... finally released free. Then, through Italy and Venezuela, they flew to Canada. During the intermediate landing in New York, Brazinskas came out of the plane and were "detained by the United States Migration and Naturalization Service. They did not provide the status of political refugees, but for a start, they provided residence permit, and in 1983 they gave both American passports. Algirdas was officially made by Albert-Viktor White, and Pranas - Frank White.

Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko - seeking to issue Brazinskas, I even went to a meeting with Reagan to the American Embassy. I was told that the Father is looking for, as he is illegally living in the USA. And the son received American citizenship. And it cannot be punished. Nadia was killed in 1970, and the law on the issuance of bandits, wherever they were, allegedly came out in 1974. And there will be no refund ...
Brazinskas settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked with ordinary malariers, in America in the Lithuanian community the attitude towards Brazinskas were wary, they were frankly afraid. An attempt to organize the collection of funds to the fund of own aid failed. In the US, Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits", in which they tried to justify the capture and hijacking of the aircraft "the struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from Soviet occupation." To blame himself, P.Bazinskas stated that he got into the flight attendant by chance, in a "shootout with the crew". Another later, A.Brazinskas argued that the flight atrochet was killed during the "shootout with Agents of the KGB" However, the support of Brazinskas Lithuanian organizations gradually descended to no, they all forgotten them. Real life in the United States was very different from what they expected. The criminals lived slaughter, the Old age of Brazinskas-Sr. became irritable and unbearable.

In early February 2002, a call rang in the 911 California city of Santa Monica. Called immediately hung up. The police have identified the address from where they called and arrived at the 900 Street house. The door by the police opened the 46-year-old Albert Viktor White and held servants of the law to the cold corpse of his 77-year-old father. On the head of which the forensic examinates later counted eight blows from dumbbells. In Santa Monica rarely killed - it was the first to death in the city.

Jack Alex. Lawyer Brazinskas Jr
"I am Lithuanian himself, and to defend Albert Viktor White hired of his wife Virginia." Here in California there is a rather numerous Lithuanian diaspora, and you do not think that we, Lithuanians, at least some support the seizure of the 1970 aircraft
- Pranas was a terrible person, it happened, in the attacks of rabies, he chased with a weapon for neighboring children.
- Algirdas is a normal and sensible person. At the time of the capture he was only 15 years old, and he hardly thought what he was doing. He spent his whole life in the shadow of dubious Charizma of his father, and now he is in prison in his own guilt
- It was the necessary self-defense. Father sent a gun on him, threatening to shoot his son if he quit him. But Algirdas knocked his weapon from him and hit the old man several times on his head.
- The jury considered that, knocking the gun, Algirdas could not kill the old man, since he was very weak. Even against Algirdas played the fact that he called the police only in a day after what happened - all this time he was near the corpse.
- Algirdas was arrested, in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the article "Intentional Murder of the Second Degree"
- I know that it sounds not barely, but let me express my condolences to Algirdas. When I last saw him, he was in a terrible depression. Father terrorized his son as he could, and when Tirana finally did not, Algirdas, a man in the heyday, will be reinforced for many years in prison. Apparently, this is fate ...

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970)
Born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novo Poltava Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. He graduated from boarding school in the village of Pokna Glazovsky district of the WASSR. Since December 1968, the flight attendant of the Sukhumi airline. Died on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent the hijacking of the aircraft by terrorists. In 1970, he was buried in the center of Sukhumi. After 20 years, her grave was postponed to the urban graveyard. Awarded (posthumously) Order of the Red Banner. The name of Hope Kurchenko was assigned to one of the peaks of the Gissar Range, the Tanker of the Russian Fleet and the Little Planet.

How 45 years ago 19-year-old Stewardles Nadezhda Kurchenko rose on the path of armed gangsters

Then, in October 1970, the attempt of armed seizure of the civil aircraft looked unprecedented villain. This is the next terrorists of all stripes will open the hunt for liners around the world. It should be rummaged in memory - and immediately the hijacking of the Jacut Prisoner of the War Tu-154 in Pakistan will be in Pakistan, the seizure in the Minvodes of the Aeroflot side by Shamil Basayev, the attack by the terrorists of the World Trade Center in New York and still dozens. And the first victim of air piracy was our stewardess Nadia Kurchenko. The tragedy, shaking the USSR, became a reason for tightening safety control on boarding of civilian courts. The fragile girl gave her life to keep many others.

So, on October 15, 1970, passenger An-24 flew from Batumi on the route Simferopol - Odessa. The plane still did not have time to dial the height when two passengers, the father and son of Brazinskas, called the stewardess and, threatening a crop, passed the crew demanding: to take a course to Turkey. Nadia managed to submit an alarm, block the gangsters the path to the pilot cabin - and was fighting the shot to the emphasis. Brazinskas were shooting without ceasing - both in the cabin, and in the cabin. Then in the trimming of the An-24 there are 18 bullet holes! The navigator Valery Fadeev and the bornemochnik Oganes Babayan received serious injuries. Pilotus George Chamberskiya bullet crushed the spine, and he saved the plane in Turkish Trabzon with almost refusable legs. Planted ...

The Turkish authorities returned passengers and the plane, but refused to give hijackers. Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskasy, not long in the Turkish prison, came across the amnesty and moved to the United States. There they received new names, residence permit and house in California. But not in vain they say that God is notching: the junior Brazinskas quarrel killed his father, for which he had already received 16 years in prison.

The animal essence of the killers Nadi Kurchenko manifested itself to the full, but America was not even embarrassed. But the US authorities at one time left without attention and the requirements of the Soviet side to issue criminals, and letters of crew members remaining disabled. Mother of the deceased flight attendant Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko achieved a meeting with President Reagan in the American Embassy. After that, the US State Department announced that "US concern by international terrorism does not apply to Brazinskas." And then the Secretary of State Cyrus Vance declared the murderers with fighters for human rights.

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

After the hijacking of the Batumi aircraft in the USSR, measures were taken to improve security on the sides of civil aircraft. On all passenger aircraft, the doors in the crew cabins were raised, eyes installed. Began to sell air tickets only on passports, at the airports introduced a selective luggage inspection. Flights with routes near the State Granitsa were accompanied by police officers in civilian clothes. The Soviet Union became the 120th ICAO member, ratified the Hague Convention on the fight against illegal seizure of aircraft.

But on April 23, 1973, a new incident was followed - this time with Tu-104, which followed from Leningrad to Moscow. The hijacker demanded to fly to Stockholm, and when attempting to land in the Soviet airport, an explosive device was activated. Killed the hijacker and the commander of the crew, and passengers managed to save from the burning aircraft.

After that case in civil aviation, the mandatory inspection of passengers introduced, metal detectors appeared at airports. The hijacking of the aircraft began to qualify as an independent kind of crime, for which 15 years of the camp and even the death penalty were given. To combat terrorism on July 29, 1974, a special unit was created by the Chairman of the KGB of Yury Andropov - the group "A".

And in the 1980-1990th, a new surge of air piracy happened in our country. We even got out of the leaders among the European powers in this form of crime. And every time the flight attendants came across the hijackers. Irina Viktorova is one of them.

"In Aeroflot, Nadi Kurchenko was heard at all, but I could not imagine that something like that could happen to me," Irina tells me, who was at that time the stewardless of the Tbilisi airline. - In November 1983, our Tu-134 followed in Batumi. On the nettle to Kutaisi fell into the thunderstorm front, the commander decided to return. When I went out to report this to passengers, I saw a terrible picture. In the aisle stood a guy with a grenade. The other shot from a pistol in a man sitting ahead ... How later it became known, seven hijackers from the Georgian "golden youth" registered in the deputy room, bypassing the inspection. Bandits were beaten me. They grabbed the stewardess of the currency and walked to the cockpit. In the peel's eyes saw her face and the door opened. Navigator Vladimir Gasoyan opened fire for defeat, a random pallet began. In this hell, fragile Valya pulled off the door of the wounded gangster and helped the pilots close in the cockpit. The crew miraculously managed to plant a plane.

At the trial of the remaining hijackers asked: "You would have the children of secured parents - would take Turputovka and remained abroad." The answer caused shock: "And we wanted to fly like Brazinskas - with noise and with shooting! Then they would not give us ... "

Nerves are burning at such work

But the flight attendant of the Boeing "Aeroflot" Anna Filataya March 18, 2005, might say, lucky - like all 214 passengers flying Sydney - Tokyo - Moscow.

"We have already entered the landing 15 kilometers from Sheremetyevo, and then the challenge lights caught fire. It came to the passenger, the guy invited me to sit down next. Shows - on the belt belt. Requires landing in Grozny. He reported to the commander, and herself continued to talk with the hijacker. Then she could not remember what we were talking about how he reacted was the nervous tension. Fortunately, all ground and special services worked clearly - the hijacker was neutralized. It turned out that he had a bomb to the belt. But the nerves we spent seriously. This story was auction: a nervous breakdown, a hospital bed. Until now, I sometimes star out of that passenger ... "

Instructions in instructions, and no one canceled courage

Today in civil aviation, a lot has been done so that the tragedy of 45 years ago does not repeat. The pilot cabin is reliably strengthened, the door is always on the castle. Even the flight attendant can get into the cabin, only after contacting the crew. Well, if all the same, the criminal penetrates on board and decided on the hijacking? A service memo impresses the flight attendant to take additional measures to prevent the possible penetration of offenders in the pilot cabin. To start, report on the internal connection to the commander at the salon, take an attempt to convince the offenders that the crew is forced to fulfill their requirements, so there is no need to enter there. Agree to the transfer of the note to the commander of the Sun only, subject to the location of the offenders in their places. In the detailed list of further necessary actions, in addition to the instructions to distract and restrain offenders from violence to remind of inevitability for this criminal liability.

About personal courage in the instructions nothing is said. Apparently because of our stewardess this quality is considered to be granted.

P.S. In Sukhumi, they wanted to put on a pedestal in the park named after Nadezhda Kurchenko that the same An-24. But that car was waiting for a difficult fate. Board No. 46586, having passed the capital recovery at the Kiev aircraft repair plant, then got into the Soviet Uzbekistan. It honestly worked on the local tracks until 1997, after which it was painted on scrap metal.