Azerbaijan lays to rest pilots and flight attendant who perished in air crash | ABS-CBN News

Azerbaijan on Sunday (December 29) paid tribute to the pilots and passengers of the passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people.
Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, both ethnic Russians with Azerbaijan citizenship, and Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant, were laid to rest in Baku.
Earlier on Sunday, they were given full honors at a memorial event at the Alley of Honour in central Baku attended by Azerbaijan 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.
The Embraer EMBR3.SA passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan's capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia's southern Chechnya region, before veering off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan's presidential office said the pilots had 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.
The Alley of Honour is Azerbaijan's most sacred modern burial ground - where prominent politicians, poets and scientists are laid to rest, including Heydar Aliyev, father of the current president.
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Condolence to the family

[@leylayetmez]

Salute to pilots lgor and Alex And hostess ms.Aliyeva r.i.p

[@TeAmo-p8p]

RIP 🥺🙏🙏🙏

[@conchingmatawarandeguzman1493]

My. Prayers and condolences to all the families of the victims in the crash and May the souls of all the casualties rest in the loving arms of God 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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😢 rip

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May you all rest in peace🙏🙏🙏

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Don't lose hope because everyone who has died will be resurrected. That is what the Bible says. Jesus raised the dead and his friend Lazarus was raised.

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💔💔💔😭😭😭

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R.I.P

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😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

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Because of by mistake many lives are lost😢

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Just imagine the human lives lost with the war in Ukraine that poooten started