2 From Siberian Family Sentenced in Hijacking

Two members of a Siberian jazz family that hijacked a plane last March in a bid to flee to the West have been sentenced to prison, the Soviet news agency Tass said.

Igor Ovechkin, 17, and his sister Olga, 28, were sentenced Friday to eight and six years, respectively, for their involvement in the March 8 hijacking in which nine people died.

Members of the Ovechkin family were aboard the Irkutsk-to-Leningrad flight when two Ovechkin brothers pulled sawed-off shotguns from their instrument cases and demanded that the plane be flown to London.

But the Tupolev-154 landed instead at a military airfield near Leningrad. A stewardess, three passengers, four Ovechkin brothers and their widowed mother died when Soviet police stormed the plane.