A BRAVE flight attendant of the doomed missile-blasted jet told terrified passengers that "everything will be fine". Crew, including Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Aleksandr Kalyaninov, desperately tried to save the plane after it was reportedly fatally struck by a missile over Chechnya, Russia.
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The captains bravely managed to then fly the jet 186 miles out of Russian airspace, across the Caspian Sea, and into Kazakhstan before it crashed. Sadly, the carrier confirmed the pilots and the chief flight attendant were among the 38 of the 67 on board who have died.
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Chief flight attendant Hokuma Aliyeva’s voice could be heard over the tannoy during the flight as she tried to calm the passengers. In one chilling video, she could be heard saying: "Everything will be fine.”. The family of Aliyeva have now paid tribute to the "cheerful person" saying “she always told us to be proud of her”.
Her family told news agency APA: “She had visited many countries and always told us to be proud of her. "Once, after returning from a trip, she said their plane almost crashed… This time, the crash happened, and my daughter couldn’t survive.". Azerbaijan Airlines published the name of its five crew members after recovering the bodies of the three who died.
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