| Date: | Saturday 6 May 1978 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-18 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Ashgabat -
 Turkmenistan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Ashgabat Airport (ASB/UTAA) |
| Mineralnye Vody Airport (MRV/URMM) |
While en route between Ashgabat and Mineralnye Vody, a passenger hijacked the aircraft, demanding to be flown to Tehran, Iran. He threatened the crew with a pistol and a grenade. The co-pilot was shot, after which the security guards killed the hijackers. The plane landed back at the airport of Ashgabat.
The hijacker was armed with a home-made pistol using starter gun ammunition and a wooden training grenade.
Sources:
Chronicle of the seizure of Russian aircraft
Soviet terrorists. More than 50 hijackings
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