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

In the Soviet Union, the status of stewardess was only a little lower than the film actress or pop singer. Young and beautiful girls in elegant uniforms with friendly smiles seemed real celers. They wrote plays about them, filmed movies, they were dedicated to the songs. One of these songs is the "stars of my clear" - was the real hit of dance parties of the seventies. However, not all of the dancing knew that the tragic death of the flight attendant, or, in the official language, the flight attendant of the Hope Vladimirovna Kurchenko devoted to the tragic death of this song.

Komsomolka, Athlete and Beauty

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). To establish life in a new place was not easy - the alcoholism of the Father, two younger sisters and brother. Learn Nada accounted for the Glazovian boarding school. However, she became one of the best students in school, very loved poems and perfectly declared them. Beautiful Sieglase Nadia was a permanent Snow Maiden on New Year's matinees, and entered in Komsomol, became a pioneer in junior class, organized hiking, released a wallpaper. For hope, the Komsomol ticket was not empty formality, and the concepts of "conscience" and "debt" - not just words.

It is difficult to say why the girl from the Udmurt village decided to tie his fate with aviation. However, after graduation, Nadia went to the distant southern city of Sukhumi, where he began to work first in the airport accounting, and when she was 18 years old, he moved to the work of the flight attendants. The girl quickly mastered the technical subtleties of his profession and knew how to get along with the most restless passengers. Her school passion for tourism continued in a new place - she became responsible for sports work in the airline, organized fascinating hiking around Sukhumi and even passed the standards on the "Tourist of the USSR" icon. 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.

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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 were 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. Seeing the reaction of the stewardess, the man jumped off the chair and rushed to the cockpit of pilots. "It's impossible here, come back!" - shouted hope, blocking him the path. She managed to shout "attack" and fell - the gangsters began to shoot. Under the threat of an explosion of an aircraft, the wounded pilots had to go to Trabzon airport. 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.

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.

Since childhood I love the song "My Clear" song in the version of VIA Flowers !! Some time ago, I came across an article about this song. In which it was said that the poem, which later left the music was devoted to the Soviet stewardess of Nadezhda Kurchenko.

I was very impressed by this story and I think she deserves our attention.

There was an end of the "velvet season." From the city of Batumi Flight N244 on Batumi-Sukhumi-Krasnodar flew the An-24 aircraft with 46 passengers on board. People who rested in the Caucasus still did not know that in the next day they had to become witnesses and participants in the drama associated with the first in the history of the USSR, the successful coxy of the passenger aircraft abroad.

A few minutes after the take-off at an altitude of 800 meters, two passengers - the father and son of Brazinskas suggested a stewardess and, threatening with an explosion, demanded a landing in Turkey. In those years in planes, the door to the cockpit of pilots was not locked, the special staff in the cabin was also not duty. Nadia tried to block the gangsters the way to the cockpit of pilots. She rushed into the cockpit and shouted: "Attack!".

The terrorists were killed by the front desk, which broke the road, and broke into the cab. Terrorists shot all directions. Later in the trim there are 18 slots. Several bullets were released towards the salon; None of the passengers suffered. The first pilot of George Chamberskiya Bully got into the spine, and his legs were treated.

Forceing pain, he turned around and saw a terrible picture: Nadia was lying in the doorway of the pilot and expired blood. Navigarman Valery Fadeev shot the lightweight, and the bornemaker Oganes Babayan was wounded in the chest. Most of all lucky Suliko Shavidze's second pilot - a bullet stuck in a steel pipe in the back of his seat. The brazinskas elder standing behind the pilots and, shaking the grenade, shouted: "To keep the shore of the sea on the left. Course south.

In the clouds not to enter! "The pilot tried to deceive the terrorists and plant an An-24 at a military airfield in Kobuleti. But the hijacker again warned that he would blow the car (later it turned out that Brazinskas bluffed, since the pomegranate was a training). Soon seized board crossed Soviet The Turkish border, and after another half an hour turned out to be over the airfield in Trabzon.

The plane made a circle over the take-off stripe and let the green rockets, asking her to free her for an emergency landing. Immediately after landing, the hijackers surrendered to the Turkish authorities. The next day, on a specially sent by the plane of all people and the body of the deceased girl was taken out in the USSR. A little later, the Turks returned vague An-24. After major repairs, the N46256 board with a photo Nadi Kurchenko in the salon still flew in Uzbekistan for a long time.

Brazinskas in 1983 issued American passports. Back in 1976, Algirdas was officially made by Albert-Viktor White, and Pranas - Frank White. They settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked with ordinary malaries. In the US, Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits", in which they tried to justify the seizure and hijacking of the aircraft "the struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from Soviet occupation.

According to the testimony of the newspaper "Los Angeles Times", in the Lithuanian community of America, attitudes towards Brazinskas were wary, they were frankly afraid. An attempt to organize the collection of funds to the fund of own aid failed - almost none of Lithuanian immigrants gave them any dollar. For old age, Brazinskas-senior became irritable and bull, and therefore in a two-room apartment, which he divided with his son, began to often arise quarrels.

During one of these quarrels, a 45-year-old son scored her 77-year-old dad with a baseball bat and was convicted of killing his father on household soil. This tragedy has received a very wide resonance at that time. In fact, it was not only the first in the history of the USSR, the successful act of air terrorism, but also the world's first in the world, when a crew member died in the hijacking of the aircraft. About tragedy wrote a lot in newspapers around the world.

Death is completely another young Nadi Kurchenko, who after three months the wedding was appointed shocked the country. One of them, the famous Vologda poetess Olga Fokina, in the early 70s wrote a poem called "People in People Different". On one of the creative meetings, Fokina admitted that her to the depths of the soul struck the tragic death of Hope Kurchenko, who happened on the eve of the wedding nadus that the verse was written with the thought of the deceased airconductor and, as it were, on behalf of her young man, mourning his bride, his stars. ...

After some time, the poem of Olga Fokina caught his eyes beginner then to the composer, guitarist Vladimir Semenov. He wrote in 1971 the song "My Clear" song with these verses. Especially for the execution of the song and record the record with it, the music team was created which was called VIA "Flowers" (later "Stas Namina Group").

And unusually lyrically and penetrated the song Soloist "Flowers", now the late Alexander Losev. The song "My Clear" Song, ascended by VIA "Flowers" on pop Olympus and made an ensemble superpopular in the USSR, does not lose its popularity for almost 40 years and thanks to extraordinary lyricity, stateness and sincerity still lives in the hearts of so many people.


Lives in the memory of people and the name of the asterisk - the deceased young flight attendant Nadi Kurchenko, the cost of their own life to be able to save people from armed gangsters ... Eternal memory! The name of Hope Kurchenko was assigned to one of the peaks of the Gissar Range, the Tanker of the Russian Fleet and Asteroid.

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.

It was the first case of capturing the passenger aircraft of such a scale (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.

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. 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 Chahrakia recalls - the crew of the An-24 crew, No. 46256, which opened on October 15, 1970, 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 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 plane wear her name. "

... After takeoff, greetings and instructions, the flight attendant returned to its desktop, a narrow compartment. She opened a Borjomi bottle and, giving water to shock with glittering 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 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 printed on the printed type "Order No. 9":

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.
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 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. 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 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. 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, Nadia shouted the crew of all his might:

Attack! He is armed!

In the next moment of the second shot, MiG broke out 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 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.

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.

To Turkey! To Turkey! Retnet to the Soviet bank - we will blow up the plane!

"Bullee 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 rifle, one pomegranate hung on his chest. The aircraft threw the left-right - pilots, probably, hoped that the 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 navigator 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 lungs rustled), the gangster cursed 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. 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 replied: "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 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. It is necessary 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 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 locals did not appear, 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.

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 flying from Udmurtia.

Mom tells the mother of Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko: "I immediately asked for Nadia 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 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 to lie with people. "

Immediately after the hijacking in the USSR, there are missing TASS messages:

"On October 15, the An-24 civil air fleet plane 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. "

7. 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 frontpoint company N.V. was killed. Kurchenko, two crew members were injured and one passenger, the Turkish government stated that they were arrested and the prosecution authorities were instructed to conduct an urgent investigation into the circumstances of the case. "

8. Only November 5, after the press conference of the Prosecutor General of the USSR Rudenko, became known about the personalities of the air pirates of the general public.

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 fathers of P. Brazinskas, who was randomly injured nearby. 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. Called with the first wife, went to Central Asia.

She was engaged in speculation (in Lithuania bought parts of cars, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sent parcels to Central Asia, earned 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. Brazinskas 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 issue 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 that they had stolen the plane in the face of death, allegedly threatened him for participating in Lithuanian resistance.

The 45-year-old Pranas Brazinskas sentenced to 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 ... "

Brazins signed 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 Old age of Brazinskas-Sr. became irritable and unbearable.

In early February 2002, a call was called a call in the 911 service of the 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 whose head, the Jewece Experts then 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 a Lithuanian himself, and defend Albert Viktor White hired of his wife 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.

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.

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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.

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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.