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Encyclopedia > Tbilisi hijacking incident

The Tbilisi hijacking incident refers to the tragic and controversial hijacking crisis at Tbilisi Airport (TBS), Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR on November 18–19 1983. Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. ... View of Tiflis from the Grounds of Saint David Church, ca. ... TBS is an abbreviation that may refer to many different subjects: There are two television networks and one radio network commonly referred to as TBS. Tokyo Broadcasting System, a TV station in Tokyo, Japan TBS Radio & Communications, a radio station in Tokyo, Japan TBS (TV Network), US The rock/emo... State motto: პროლეტარ ყველა ქვეყნისა, შეერთდით! Official language Georgian since 1978 (Georgia was the only Soviet republic to have an official language) Capital Tbilisi Chairman of the Supreme Council Zviad Gamsakhurdia (at independence) Established In the USSR:  - Since  - Until February 25, 1921 December 30, 1922 April 9, 1991 Area  - Total... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. ... For other uses, see number 19. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


On November 18, 1983, nine young hijackers, children of the Georgian intellectual elite, tried to hijack a Tu-134A aircraft (Aeroflot) with the purpose of fleeing from the Soviet Union. There were 57 passengers and 7 crewmembers on board. On the following day, security forces (the so-called Alpha Group) stormed the aircraft. Three crewmembers, two passengers and three hijackers were killed and the aircraft received 63 bullet holes during the storm. The 5 hijackers were arrested. November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Aeroflot Tu-134 sits on the tarmac The Tupolev Tu-134 was a Russian twin-engined airliner, similar to the American Douglas DC-9. ... Aeroflot — Russian Airlines (Russian:Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии), or Aeroflot (Аэрофло́т), is the Russian national airline and is the biggest carrier in Russia. ...


The head of the Georgian Communist Party Eduard Shevardnadze condemned the offenders and they received capital punishment. Their confessor, the Orthodox priest Theodore Chikhladze was also executed despite being not concerned in the hijacking plan. Their families had been under intolerable pressure for years. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ შევარდნაძე, Russian: Эдуа́рд Амвро́сьевич Шевардна́дзе; pronounced ed-oo-ard am-vro-see-ye-vitch she-va-rd-nad-zuh) (born 25 January 1928) is a Georgian politician. ...


The hijackers of 1983 have been regarded as civil heroes by many Georgians, claiming that they were well-educated and intelligent young people who could not resign themselves to unfairness of the Soviet reality and dreamed to live in a free country. Many claims have been made that Eduard Shevardnadze demanded the death penalty for the hijackers to strengthen his positions in the Communist elite and to show his loyalty to the Kremlin. Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ შევარდნაძე, Russian: Эдуа́рд Амвро́сьевич Шевардна́дзе; pronounced ed-oo-ard am-vro-see-ye-vitch she-va-rd-nad-zuh) (born 25 January 1928) is a Georgian politician. ... The Moscow Kremlin The Moscow Kremlin (Russian: Московский Кремль) is the best known kremlin (Russian citadel). ...


In 2001, a young Georgian producer of the Marjanishvili State Theatre, Dato Doiashvili, decided to make a performance of the 1983 events. However, the theatre administration didn't accept the screenplay of the writer David Turashvili. The latter stated Shevardnadze was reluctant to recall old memories. Georgian human right organizations claimed censorship in Georgia was still functional. The performance “The Jeans Generation” was staged, however, at the private Free Theatre (in Georgian: tavisupali teatri) and gained a conspicuous popularity in Georgia. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... David Turashvili (b. ...


External link

  • http://aviation-safety.net/database/1983/831118-0.htm
  • http://www.hridc.org/newsletters/2627.htm

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Aircraft hijacking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2955 words)
Rather, most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to obtain transportation to a given location, to hold them for ransom, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1970s, the release of comrades being held in prison.
Hijackings for hostages have usually followed a pattern of negotiations between the hijackers and the authorities, followed by some form of settlement -- not always the meeting of the hijackers' original demands -- or the storming of the aircraft by armed police or special forces to rescue the hostages.
A lone hijacker armed with a.22 sawn-off rifle and a knife in flight on Ansett Airlines flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs with 28 passengers and a crew of 4.
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Rather, most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to either obtain transport to a given location, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1970s, the release of comrades being held in prison.
In the September 11, 2001 attacks, the use of hijacked planes as suicide missiles changed the way hijacking was perceived as a security threat — though similar usages had apparently been attempted by Samuel Byck in 1974 and on Air France Flight 8969 in 1994.
Hijackings for hostages have usually followed a pattern of negotiations between the hijackers and the authorities, followed by some form of settlement or the storming of the aircraft by armed police or special forces to rescue the hostages.
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