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free clothes for chargers free. range month free. free. free. down free broadcast quality video for your media projects and a free video dog r.t. dot com in. eastern siberia international airport. nine hundred eighty eight a t u one five four from here heading for leningrad. but once the plane was airborne its flight crew reported to ground control that the aircraft had been hijacked. terrorists were demanding a diversion to london. the events that followed the plane's emergency landing close to the finnish border became a nightmare for its passengers. people were lying here under this hatch most were unconscious and many had severe injuries
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. the passenger plane had been hijacked by a family of eleven. the children played together in a jazz band and together they planned the hijacking the elder children died in an assault on the captured plane having first killed their own mother. my elder brother shot my mum before my eyes how could he commit such a sin. how did they smuggle explosives and weapons aboard. musicians into terrorists many new details of the case have only now come to light twenty five years after the tragedy. the first ever children's jazz band to appear in eastern siberia was an instant success. the documentary was soon made about the family it was. the country.
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a few. just like today the pilots then gave the flight attendants. international women's day. half the seats were empty and passengers were in festive mood when someone suddenly passed a note to one of the flight attendants she thought it was just a prank. whether the been two weeks before the tragedy we attended a training course devoted to what the cabin crew should do in case of a hijack a ten minute journey in that training session a mock terrorist can it be a very similar note yet so at that moment i just didn't take that little scrap of paper seriously but yes not at fast. on board will probably have to call the police. and then she showed us the note. change karsh to london don't descend or we'll blow up the plane you are
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now under our command. shotguns in the back row above the back of the seats about this high gun barrels. for the hijackers had a long stopover in the city of course. new passengers and their luggage had to be loaded and the aircraft needed refueling. during that time one of the passengers noticed the older brothers. i overheard a conversation between the two brothers one of them had bought something it is even a shop i was standing near by and heard him say to his brother in a low voice look what i bought to remember our homeland. most everyone in the. children off. this time she went with them as head of the family.
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community of. some hundred forty kilometers from. the. who didn't take part in the hijacking she already had her own family and lived with her husband and children. shortly before the tragedy. this is the album that all my sister brought me in february and i asked why are you giving me these old albums she answered i've made new albums and these you can have
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even more protective we don't know who she felt she had to protect them from. the decision one of the crew members. with the. discussed everything between us we agreed on a signal. if the bandits wanted me to open the cockpit door or whatever i said if mark saw i was moved to my right the crew would not open the door under any circumstances and so i want to talk to them. confidential actions of the crew in case of skyjacking if a criminal only agrees to refuel the plane abroad the captain shall make the decision to imitate the landing at a foreign airport and choose the most appropriate airfield within the territory of
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the soviet union. and then later we found out that we were followed by escort on a fighter plane as if they were under orders to destroy the plane if it crossed the border. altitude one hundred meters vertical for situation assessment when landing when the plane landed the terrorists had no idea that they'd been taken to a military airfield on soviet soil at the time neither passengers nor crew expected the terrible tragedy that was yet to come there was still three and a half hours to go before the catastrophic conclusion. told them a language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports to come
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like you know the no i will be next tuesday kind of comment on your latter point i come on to say it's ok because are you talking. to you no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little bit of difference of caution. british style. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report.
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to be told language. programs documentaries in arabic. from the world's hot spots at the ip interviews intriguing stories. in trying. to find out because it. is a retired military pilot. his group was given orders to paint. to the furthermost to make the terrorists believe that the plane had landed in finland . missions managed to make the night time we expect the plane
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would be directed here never anything else would happen next to this hangar. and we did what we could. one of the flight attendants to sit next to them was a human shield. of the cabin crew was taken hostage. and to the cabin. two of us tomorrow at first sight with the tray and i was following. the of h. scans immediately rushed from the back row threatened us with their shotguns and shouted one of you go back or we shoot she told me go back or they'll start shooting there but.
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the military airfield is now abandoned this old command post is where the assault operation commander spoke to the flight crew of the hijacked plane. as a former eye craft technician he was on combat duty at the command post. i think the time of the assault this was full of generals that there was barely room to move. when the plane landed the security scorcher and rushed to the landing field. with kalashnikovs that's when the terrorists realized they were still in the soviet union and that i think. when the i found out that they'd been deceived they were furious you wouldn't she said they were panicking they started shooting at the cockpit. tried to calm them down she kept telling them he was this is bin and this
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is finland i can remember her words begin with i was probably tomato. i said something obscene to her and then fired a shot with the. this footage shows dimitri who killed. the idea. they decided to take the entire. back to the. control of the whole situation. if it was for the good of the family. but it was the boy's idea to start earning money mom didn't work and they were living in an apartment so there was no more livestock they had to earn
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a living they couldn't do anything but play music there was no other option. we started learning to. communicate once we brought. understand. credible stupidity this was unbelievably stupid what was this all for. the military security. of the hijacked planes crew continue to. take off. we had to drag as long as we could. to get here and help the passengers. to appease the older of the flight engineer resorted to
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a clever subterfuge. i went up on to the right swaying and pretended i was refueling the plane. with his equipment i was feeling. but i didn't. this way the terrorists could see it was under pressure this created the impression that the plane was being. meanwhile the passengers in the cabin were preparing to die after the flight attendant was killed it was clear that the had nothing to lose . so one of them said i'll count to ten captain if you don't start the engine the first passenger he started counting one of the three i watched the passengers that were sitting next to me they were helpless and desperately trying to cover their hearts with their seatbelts they were hiding behind newspapers magazines.
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was morsels of which we told you that we couldn't wait any longer that they blow us up but they kept saying the same thing if you tried all the time negotiate make them let the passengers out in exchange for something this is all completely unrealistic at that moment. the pilots started the engines they could no longer wait for the moscow assault team. prepared to kill passengers using noise from the turbines as cover to local police groups approached on both sides. with pistols two officers used a rope from the flight deck to climb into the cockpit neither had experience of hijacked aircraft. it was absolutely useless totally was to
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start when the plane began to move along the runway so the plane started moving. into the magazines not knowing where or what for. fired back at the assaulting. and a few minutes later they detonate. homemade bomb the cabin immediately caught fire . people jumped on to the concrete right from this hatch it's a bag full metres off the ground. when it was my turn to evacuate i looked down before jumping and saw people lying there women in high heels naturally they were badly injured when they landed. the rescue operation was a complete failure the field was soon empty none of the high ranking officials
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wanted to take responsibility for the or sold for the plane being completely destroyed by fire or for the passenger evacuation. i saw with my own all eyes that one of the passengers jumped from the plane got to his feet and started running he got past the cordon and then i heard a shot i realized it was shot in the back of. the investigation revealed that the assault team killed three people. told how his older brothers and mother died he served as a liaison between them during the hijacking. of the shotgun and shut down a mother. her skull was opened up. the toilet. fraid of being shot yes naturally. the surviving family members.
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six. was seven months pregnant. future fate was equally tragic. a few years later. a drug smuggling where he was killed. during a drug. that at the end of the run when she got out of jail she'd be ok but in reality freedom turned out to be even more frightening. returns to the. street. instead of. the house the old wooden building was soon derelict.
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twenty five years ago. one by one. you have a dog. the sidewalk was here and the house over there. today the place. started building a new two story house many of the neighbors tried to talk to. and even. of course we weren't happy about what they. cursed that bad people lived here but after reading their story i'd say they were just normal people and normal family.
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anything bad about them and i never well i had very good brothers excellent brother is very honest and fair they didn't want to kill anyone. they only killed themselves. into the. field. at first she couldn't afford the trip and later the location of her mother and brother's grave was lost. and put them into this great. column here and kept the grave in order for all these years. their friends. only needed to wait another three years before their dreams could come true in one thousand nine hundred one with the collapse of the soviet union the iron curtain fell to fly abroad they'd only have needed to buy
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