Azerbaijan on Sunday paid tribute to the pilots and passengers of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan , killing 38 people after Russian air defenses were used against Ukrainian drones. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia where Ukrainian drones were attacking several cities.
Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, both ethnic Russians with Azerbaijan citizenship, and Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant, were given full honors at a ceremony at the Alley of Honor in central Baku attended by President Ilham Aliyev and his wife, Mehriban. The pilots have been lauded in Azerbaijan for landing in a way which allowed 29 people to survive but led to their own deaths. Azerbaijan's presidential office said that after the yet-to-be explained incident over Russian airspace, the pilots battled to control the plane—desperately trying to find a landing spot. With holes in the fuselage, some crew injured, passengers praying for their lives in a de-pressurized cabin and the plane spiraling out of control, the pilots flew across the Caspian Sea towards their death in a crash landing. 'Only through the courage and professionalism of the pilots was an emergency landing successfully carried out,' Azerbaijan's presidential office said. The Alley of Honor is Azerbaijan's most sacred modern burial ground—where prominent politicians, poets and scientists are laid to rest, including Heydar Aliyev, the late father of the current president. Captain Kshnyakin's daughter, Anastasia Kshnyakina, said her father was a dedicated pilot who took his responsibilities to his passengers extremely seriously. 'My father always said: when I take off, I am responsible not only for my life, but also for the lives of all passengers and crew members,' Kshnyakina said. 'With his last flight, he proved what a true hero should be
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