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The Dymshits – Kuznetsov aircraft hijacking affair (, or Дело группы Дымшица-Кузнецова ) ( Leningrad Process ) was an attempt to hijack a civilian aircraft on 15 June 1970 by a group of Soviet refuseniks in order to escape to the West.
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In the Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair on 15 June 1970, a group of Soviet refuseniks attempted to hijack a civilian aircraft in order to escape to the West, were caught and spent many years in Soviet prisons.
* Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair
Dymshits and Kuznetsov
In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to the United States, along with four other political prisoners ( Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins ) and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.
Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov were sentenced to capital punishment but after international protests it was appealed and replaced with 15 years of incarceration,
After long negotiations, on 27 April 1979, they were exchanged for five Soviet political prisoners: Aleksandr Ginzburg, Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins.
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One of the participants, Mark Dymshits, was a former military pilot.
– and Kuznetsov
* Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 1979 ), Soviet writer, author of Babi Yar
* Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov ( 1867 – 1942 ), Russian architect
* Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov ( 1878 – 1968 ), Russian painter
* Aleksey Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 2003 ), Soviet cross-county skier
* Vasili Kuznetsov ( athlete ) ( 1932 – 2001 ), Soviet decathlete
* Alexey Kuznetsov ( 1905 – 1950 ), Soviet politician
* Vasili Kuznetsov ( politician ) ( 1901 – 1990 ), Soviet politician
* Fyodor Kuznetsov ( 1898 – 1961 ), a military commander of the Soviet Union
* Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov ( 1904 – 1974 ), an Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1995 ), a prominent Soviet aerospace engineer and the chief of the Kuznetsov Design Bureau
* 2233 Kuznetsov, an asteroid named for Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1944 ), a Russian partisan fighter of World War II, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov – A Soviet naval officer and People's Commissar of State for the Navy during World War II.
* Nikolai Kuznetsov – intelligence officer responsible for the kidnappings and assassinations of several high-ranking Nazis.
* January 21 – The Soviet Union commissions the " heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser " Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.
* Nikolai Kuznetsov ( 1902 – 74 ): Appointed March 3, 1955 ; demoted February 17, 1956 ; restored posthumously July 26, 1988
* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1995 ), Soviet jet and rocket engine designer, Hero of Socialist Labor
* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( painter ) ( 1850 – 1930 ), Ukrainian-Russian painter
* Nikolai Efimovich Kuznetsov ( 1879 – 1970 ), Russian and Soviet painter
* Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov ( 1904 – 1974 ), Soviet Naval officer
* Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1944 ), Soviet intelligence agent during World War II
* Nikolay Kuznetsov ( fencer ) ( 1882 – after 1912 ), Russian fencer
– and aircraft
* Birdman Atlas – ultralight aircraft
* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.
* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.
Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
* 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
* 1991 – The Airbus A340 aircraft makes its first flight.
* 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
* 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the.
* 2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
* 1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
* 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd.
* 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.
* 1994 – In a U. S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
* Archive of American Airlines site – explaining that all aircraft are accounted for ( September 11, 2001 )
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