Aeroflot Flight 6833
Introduction


**Aeroflot Flight 6833**,*Сергей Турченко.* [Кровавый рейс № 6833](https://archive.today/20130416214702/www.fsb.ru/fsb/history/author/single.htm!id%3D10318151@fsbPublication.html) // "Труд" от 2 августа 2000 en route from [Tbilisi](/wiki/Tbilisi "Tbilisi"), [Georgian SSR](/wiki/Georgian_SSR "Georgian SSR"), to [Leningrad](/wiki/Leningrad "Leningrad"), [Russian SFSR](/wiki/Russian_SFSR "Russian SFSR"), with an intermediate stop in [Batumi](/wiki/Batumi "Batumi"), was the scene of an attempted [aircraft hijacking](/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking "Aircraft hijacking") by seven young [Georgians](/wiki/Georgians "Georgians") on 18–19 November 1983\. The crisis ended with a storming of the [Tu\-134A](/wiki/Tu-134A "Tu-134A") airliner by [Alpha Group](/wiki/Alpha_Group "Alpha Group") that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.


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