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Aeroflot Flight 244
Aeroflot Flight 244 was hijacked on 15 October 1970, making it the first known successful airline hijacking in the Soviet Union.
Synopsis.
Lithuanian Pranas Brazinskas and his 13-year-old son Algirdas seized an An-24 domestic passenger plane en route from Batumi, Adjar ASSR, Georgian SSR, to Sukhumi and Krasnodar to defect to the West. Pranas had been sentenced twice by the Soviet authorities in 1955 and 1965 for financial crimes related to state-run shops where he worked. They selected seats closest to the
time of the accident, the aircraft had sustained 14,903 flight hours and 13,832 pressurization cycles.
Crew and passengers.
Six crew members were aboard Aeroflot Flight 2022. The flight crew consisted of:
- Captain Stepan Boyko
- Co-pilot Eugenijus Karnila
- Navigator Juozas Časas
- Flight engineer Yuno Shamaev
- Stewardess Maria Cricova
The crew also included a junior police lieutenant as a sky marshal (they were added after the hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 244 in 1970). 
All of the passengers were