A Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft similar to the aircraft involved in the incident.
Hijacking
Date
18 November 1983
Summary
Hijacking
Site
En route from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union to Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 41°40′8.82″N44°57′17.96″E / 41.6691167°N 44.9549889°E / 41.6691167; 44.9549889
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Tupolev Tu-134A
Operator
Aeroflot
Registration
CCCP-65807
Flight origin
Tbilisi-Novo Alexeyevka Airport (TBS / UGGG)
Destination
Leningrad-Pulkovo Airport (LED / ULLI)
Passengers
57
Crew
7
Fatalities
8
Survivors
56
Aeroflot Flight 6833,[1] 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 Alpha Group that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.[2][3]
^Сергей Турченко. Кровавый рейс № 6833 // "Труд" от 2 августа 2000
^"Угоны самолётов в СССР Captures of planes in the USSR". hijacking.far.ru. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
^"Гасоян Владимир Бадоевич". www.warheroes.ru. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
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