Aeroflot Flight 6833

When

19 Nov 1983

Kind

Event

Coordinates

41.67° N, 44.95° E

Description

An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Aeroflot Flight 6833.

1983 aircraft hijacking

Aeroflot Flight 6833, 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.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “безуспешная попытка захвата самолёта в Грузинской ССР, несколько человек погибло и было ранено”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page