Word: stewardesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...
...landing. After all, few foreign planes ever land in the small (pop. 66,000) market town. Excitement soon turned to consternation as frantic passengers scrambled out the rear door and two bloodied pilots staggered from the front of the plane. Both had been wounded by gunshots. Inside lay the stewardess, 18-year-old Nadezhda Kulchenko, dead of a bullet wound. That dreaded international malady, skyjacking, had finally spread to Russia...
According to Aeroflot Captain Oganes Babayan, the pair had burst into the cockpit and when the pilots tried to radio an alarm to the ground, opened fire. One passenger said the stewardess was killed as she tried to keep the hijackers out of the cockpit. The hijackers carried five firearms and three hand grenades-an extraordinary arsenal in any case but particularly for Soviet citizens, who are prohibited from owning firearms without special permission.* They also had about $5,000 in Soviet and U.S. currency...
...gagged and turned the circumstance into parody: the black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity" and fume at the network's excision of the characters' children from the story. Randall complains that "ABC Standards & Practices says that divorced people don't have children. In the play, the fact that...
Branziskas, in testimony before Turkish government authorities, said he hijacked the plane in order to "provide to my son an education in a free country." Branziskas killed a stewardess as he commandeered the plane to Turkey last Thursday...