LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 hijacking the Republic"), a crime under GDR law. Ruske and Tiede then concluded that they were trapped and that prison awaited them if they returned to East Germany. So they developed a plan to hijack a plane headed for East Berlin's Schönefeld Airport and force a landing at the U.S. Air Force base at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin. They bought a toy starting pistol at a Polish flea market, and then booked three tickets on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 from Gdańsk, Poland, to East Berlin. On 30 August 1978, Tiede and Ruske hijacked a Polish LOT Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
Azimuth (airline) certificate (AOC) giving the airline permission to commence flight operations. Domestic routes to Kaliningrad, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Surgut and Gelendzhik, as well as international routes to Yerevan, Prague, Frankfurt, Istanbul and Tel Aviv are planned to enter Azimuth's route network by 2021. On 7 December 2017, Azimuth officially shifted all flights from Rostov-on-Don Airport to Platov International Airport. Azimuth officially started international flights on 29 September 2018 when it started offering weekly flights to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. On 1 October 2018, Azimuth had its first flight to Yerevan, Armenia, starting a schedule now offering three services a week. The airline, which