On 15 October 1970 an Antonov An-24B , servicing Aeroflot Flight 244 , left Batumi for Krasnodar . Ten minutes after takeoff , at an altitude of , two men called Kurchenko . Showing sawed-off shotguns and a grenade , they demanded her to pass the pilots a note demanding them to divert the aircraft to Turkey . The hijackers , Pranas Brazinskas and his teenaged son Algirdas Brazinskas , sought a defection from the Soviet Union . Kurchenko rushed to the cockpit and shouted " Assault ! " The hijackers ran after her . Algirdas Brazinskas shouted to the passengers " Do n't you get up or we 'll blow up the plane ! " 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
Aeroflot Flight 244
Aeroflot Flight 244
Nadezhda Kurchenko