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Kurchenko shouted to the crew "Watch out, they are armed!", which were her last words. She tried to knock away the sawed-off shotgun from one of the hijackers. At that moment Pranas Brazinskas fatally shot Kurchenko in the chest twice and she fell backwards.
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village of Ponino, where she finished boarding school. Kurchenko aspired to enroll in law school, but ultimately became a flight attendant. In 1968 she moved to
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In 1970, Kurchenko was buried in the center of Sukhumi, but 20 years later, due to unrest in that city, her grave was moved to the city cemetery of
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and a grenade, they demanded her to pass the pilots a note demanding them to divert the aircraft to
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and worked in the accounting office of the Sukhumi aviation unit.
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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union
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Kurchenko was born in the settlement of Novo-Poltava,
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Index

Photograph of Nadezhda Kurchenko wearing an Aeroflot pin
Klyuchevsky District
Altai Krai
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union

Soviet
flight attendant
Aeroflot Flight 244
cockpit
Order of the Red Banner
Gissar Range
2349 Kurchenko
tanker
Sukhumi
Klyuchevsky District
Russian SSR
Udmurtian
Abkhazia
Antonov An-24B
Aeroflot Flight 244
Batumi
Krasnodar
sawed-off shotguns
Turkey
defection from the Soviet Union
Glazov
Aeroflot
Soviet Ministry of the Interior
Izhevsk

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