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...five men and three or four women who boarded Aeroflot Flight 6833 to Leningrad were members of a wedding party, though elopement seemed more on their minds. Not long after the plane left the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, about 85 miles from the Turkish border, the group ordered the pilot to fly to Turkey. Instead, the captain alerted ground control and flew in circles around the airport at Tbilisi before finally touching down there. Throughout the afternoon and night, the plane sat on the tarmac while the hijackers demanded that it be refueled. Meanwhile, a crack antiterrorist squad was brought...
...number of unsealed crates. When he finally and reluctantly yielded, the reason for his obduracy became clear: one crate contained 28 AK-47 automatic rifles, 300 loaded AK-47 magazines and five loaded pistols. The cache was confiscated before the passengers were flown to Mexico to catch an Aeroflot jet to the Soviet Union...
...Reagan response to the airline tragedy first went astray two weeks later on September 16 when the State Department told the Soviet Embassy that Foreign Minister Gromyko could not arrive in the United States on an Aeroflot plane and would have to land at a military airport. Gromyko promptly cancelled his annual address to the General Assembly's opening session and attacked the United States for violating its treaty obligations with the United Nations in an attempt to humiliate unjustly the Soviet Union. Score I for the Soviet propaganda machine, 0 for the Reagan effort...
When Israel mistakenly shot down a Libyan jetliner a decade ago (an example Mr. Louis uses to show our double standard concerning Soviet actions), it immediately apologized and offered compensation to the relatives of the victims. This was the civilized thing to do. When Aeroflot and other Eastern Bloc civilian airliners fly over restricted American airspace in order to test our response time, we scramble fighters and shoo them away, but we do not even consider shooting them down, for this is so outside the scope of international law and of our own morality that it would never become...
...some commercial carriers wander from their flight paths deliberately. Shortly before the U.S. withdrew Aeroflot's landing rights at New York and Washington in 1981, after the military crackdown in Poland, the Soviet carrier was a notorious offender, frequently entering off-bounds airspace in the U.S. Two Aeroflot planes passed over New England military installations, including the U.S. Navy shipyards at Groton, Conn., where work was under way on a new nuclear submarine. Both carried passengers-and possibly spy cameras or electronic eavesdropping equipment. Lot, the Polish carrier, and the Czechoslovak line, CSA, Government also wandered into restricted zones...