STORY: :: Mourners honor two pilots and a flight attendant
died in Azerbaijan Airlines crash
:: Baku, Azerbaijan
::29 December 2024
Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, each ethnic Russians with Azerbaijani citizenship, and Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant, had been buried in Baku.
Last Sunday, they acquired full honors throughout a commemorative occasion on the Alley of Honor in central Baku, within the presence of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban.
The pilots had been praised in Azerbaijan for touchdown in a approach that allowed 29 folks to outlive however led to their deaths.
The Embraer EMBR3.SA passenger aircraft had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s southern Chechnya area earlier than veering tons of of miles throughout the Caspian Sea.
The Alley of Honor is the holiest trendy cemetery in Azerbaijan, the place vital politicians, poets and scientists relaxation.
