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came a pleasant young female voice over the speakers. The passengers next to me looked around in confusion. Yes

we had an all-female crew

including the pilots. Two beautiful

positive young girls were in charge of our lives. The male pilots of Pobeda Airlines (“Pobeda” means “Victory” in Russian) had apparently already been “partially mobilized” and sent to the war in Ukraine. So the motherland met us already in the cabin of the airplane in Antalya. The plane was an old Boeing 737–800 and I seriously don’t know when it last had the required maintenance. We flew quite safely

except for a hard landing in Vnukovo.