True crime · 08.01.1954
Hijackers on a flight out of Tallinn
On 8 January 1954 a man in a Soviet Air Force uniform and a woman hijacked an Aeroflot Li-2 shortly after it took off from Tallinn. They demanded to be flown to Finland. Both had pistols, and the woman also carried a knife. The flight engineer tried to stop them and was shot. He died the next day. After a struggle with the pilots, the hijackers were overpowered and tied up, and the plane turned round and landed back in Tallinn. The flight engineer was made a Hero of the Soviet Union after his death, and a monument to him was put up in Minsk in 1965.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
8. jaanuaril 1954 kaaperdasid Aerofloti lennuki Li-2 vahetult pärast Tallinnast õhkutõusmist Nõukogude õhujõudude vormis mees ja naine. Nad nõudsid, et lennuk viiks nad Soome. Mõlemal olid püstolid, naisel lisaks nuga. Pardamehaanik üritas neid takistada ja teda tulistati. Ta suri järgmisel päeval. Pärast rüselust pilootidega saadi kaaperdajad jagu ja seoti kinni ning lennuk pöördus tagasi ja maandus Tallinnas. Pardamehaanikule anti postuumselt Nõukogude Liidu kangelase nimetus ja 1965. aastal püstitati talle Minskis mälestusmärk.
Source: English Wikipedia: List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1954 ↗