Aeroflot Flight 6833 hijacking

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Aeroflot Flight 6833

Aeroflot Flight 6833

Aeroflot Flight 6833

Aeroflot Flight 6833, en route from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, to Leningrad, Russian SFSR, with an intermediate stop in Batumi, was the scene of an attempted aircraft hijacking by seven young Georgians on 18-19 November 1983. The crisis ended with a storming of the Tu-134A airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot Flight 6833

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