Six crew members were aboard Aeroflot Flight 2022 . The flight crew consisted of : 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 Soviet citizens , with the exception of one who was a West German citizen . Majority of the passengers were Lithuanians . They included four noted Lithuanian pediatricians , including , who traveled to a medical conference in Kharkiv . Bodies of the victims were cremated in Moscow on 21 December . The four doctors were buried in a public ceremony attended by Lithuanian First Secretary Antanas Sniečkus in Antakalnis Cemetery
Aeroflot Flight 244
Aeroflot Flight 244
Aeroflot Flight 2022