In the story described, only the names and tail number of the aircraft have been changed. Some minor participants in the flight were invented to color the narrative. The rest really happened at night from the second to the third of January one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five near the landing strip of the Alma-Ata airfield. How much has been written, so much has perished. How much has been written, so much has survived. And it was one person who brought the flight to disaster, if you look at the event in all honesty. Sharipov. The rest were afraid and still obeyed him, the chief from the Main Directorate.