Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a stopover in Kurgan. On March 8, 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan for Leningrad, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought an escape from the Soviet Union. The hijackers demanded the crew fly the aircraft to London. The flight engineer persuaded the hijackers to allow a stopover in Finland for refueling. The aircraft in fact landed at the Soviet military airbase Veshchevo, near the Finnish border, where it was stormed by the incident response team of the Soviet interior ministry. During the incident four hostages died and five hijackers committed suicide. Two surviving prosecutable members of the Ovechkin family were senten
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Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a stopover in Kurgan. On March 8, 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan for Leningrad, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought an escape from the Soviet Union. The hijackers demanded the crew fly the aircraft to London. The flight engineer persuaded the hijackers to allow a stopover in Finland for refueling. The aircraft in fact landed at the Soviet military airbase Veshchevo, near the Finnish border, where it was stormed by the incident response team of the Soviet interior ministry. During the incident four hostages died and five hijackers committed suicide. Two surviving prosecutable members of the Ovechkin family were senten
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Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Sov ...... r as a result of the incident.
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El vuelo 3739 de Aeroflot fue ...... como resultado del incidente.
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Захват и попытка угона пассажи ...... кий акт, имевший место в СССР.
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事发时,奥韦奇金一家共有13名成员:母亲妮娜和她的十二个孩子 ...... 去看亲戚,接着,他们就登上了从伊尔库茨克飞往列宁格勒的航班。
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Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154B, similar to that involved in the accident, 1979
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1988-03-08
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Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Sov ...... he Ovechkin family were senten
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El vuelo 3739 de Aeroflot fue ...... ehenes murieron y los cinco se
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Захват и попытка угона пассажи ...... кий акт, имевший место в СССР.
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事发时,奥韦奇金一家共有13名成员:母亲妮娜和她的十二个孩子 ...... 去看亲戚,接着,他们就登上了从伊尔库茨克飞往列宁格勒的航班。
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Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
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Vuelo 3739 de Aeroflot
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Попытка угона Ту-154 8 марта 1988 года
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苏联民航3739号班机劫机事件
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