Flight attendant's haunting final act on plane 'shot down by Russia' on Christmas Day

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A flight attendant desperately tried to comfort passengers with four words before she was killed in a tragic Christmas Day plane crash.Hokuma Aliyeva was working onboard the doomed Azerbaijan Airlines flight that may have been shot down by a Russian missile.

The 33-year-old was one of 38 people who tragically died when the plane crashed in Kazakhstan as it attempted to land.It had been traveling from Azerbaijan's capital Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russian, where it appears it may have been struck by something, The Mirror reports.Hero pilots, Captain Igor Kysnyakin and co-pilot Aleksandr Kalayaninov have been praised for their efforts trying to save the plane.

They managed to fly it out of Russian airspace, with 29 people on board surviving the disaster. Both pilots died as did Ms Alieyeva who was recorded trying to keep people calm on board during the terrifying moments before it crash landed.In a clip she can be heard saying: “Everything will be fine.” Her family have now paid tribute saying “she always told us to be proud of her”.

Subkhonkul Rahimov, a passenger from Yekaterinburg who survived the crash, also told how courageous was Ms Aliyeva."The flight attendant who was closer to the pilots endured a horrifying situation ...