Pilot’s CHILDREN in Control! | Aeroflot Flight 593

Aeroflot Flight 593 was a regular passenger flight from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. On 23 March 1994, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A310-304 flown by Aeroflot, crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The investigators found, to their horror, that the children of the pilot was present in the cockpit when the aircraft crashed.
In this video I will tell you the full story about what happened.

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CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - flight history
01:00 - the flight crew
01:52 - takeoff
02:48 - a busy cockpit
03:50 - letting an outsider in
05:35 - go ahead, take the controls
06:52 - making contact with the ground
08:11 - Can I turn this Dad?
12:17 - forty five degree bank
15:43 - losing control
17:44 - stall! stall!
18:40 - situational awareness lost
19:50 - there’s the ground!
21:27 - spin entry
22:34 - left rudder again
24:26 - outcomes

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[youngkeazy]

Imagine being a surgeon and letting your child give it a go in a life saving operation…

[virenor]

It's worth to mention, the company along with authorities denied the children were in cocpit until the transcript leaked to media a half year later.

[bacl]

I am in shock that two professional pilots sat and bore witness to what was happening. This has to be one of the most negligent crises I have ever heard of.

[ZakariaBoualaid]

it's kinda unbelievable how even when things got dangerous, he is still standing behind his son and giving him commands..

[brianwest]

Imagine being the first person to listen to the voice recording, to understand what happened, and to have to tell your boss/others what happened.

[marisawojcikiewicz]

When you said “this is only 3 minutes and 15 seconds after Eldar sat down in the captain’s seat” my jaw dropped… you explained everything so thoroughly it seemed like it took at least 10 minutes

[PK-dbqj]

I don't allow my kid to touch my car controls and here we have a pilot letting them fly plane. Insane.

[aniethingy]

My dad once told me his story where he was a little boy on an aircraft (that was in soviet union) and before the flight started the door to the cockpit was open. He curiously looked inside and pilot noticed it and invited him inside. My dad spend the whole flight inside and even seated on the pilots laps with his hands on the yoke. I felt that it is such a wholesome story but now i realise how dangerous this was.

[robswystun]

Out of all the airline disaster cases I've seen, this one is easily the most infuriating.

[tahaak]

It‘s just crazy that the captain didn‘t yank his son out of the chair and took control right after the first anomaly happened. Wtf was going on in his mind as he told his son to correct his mistake instead of doing it himself. This was not a flight simulator this was a real commercial passenger flight… Some people are so crazy…

[marcuscarana]

Even the autopilot was confused about what was going on.

[TrashBoatAsh]

imagine being the loved one of a passenger on that plane and hearing that they died because a child was controlling the plane.. and also learning that there were multiple adults in the cockpit that could've easily prevented this from happening. this also just goes to show how quickly things can go south, seeing that this all happened in just over three minutes

[carrieseymour]

The most heart-wrenching thing to me is how they nearly recovered it twice.

[TimCutts]

My father was a commercial airline pilot. I went to work with him several times, and sat in the jump seat. This would have been in about 1980. But the discipline was absolute. I was *never* allowed to sit in either pilot's seat in the air, or even on the ground once business was under way (for example, once passengers were boarding, or pre-flight checks needed to be done). I was absolutely forbidden from touching *anything*, and during critical portions of the flight (from joining the runway until the fasten seat belt signs were switched off, if either of them needed to speak to ATC, and again during final descent and landing) I was absolutely forbidden from speaking.

[AgeBetterDotCom]

I can hardly imagine the level of irresponsibility and recklessness this pilot showed when he let his kids (with no flying experience) actually control the plane. This is mind-boggling!

[RoulicisThe]

My father worked as a flight attendant, chief of staff of the main cabin, in Air France. And because he was very appreciated in the company me and my little brother were often invited into the cockpit when we had to take a flight (this was before 9/11, in a time when this was still possible).
And while we were allowed inside the cockpit, not a single time were we allowed to come even close to the controls of the aircraft. We were there to watch, not touch, and both my father and the pilots were very clear about it.

Thus, what happened in this accident leaves me completely speechless...

[jazzyeric]

Imagine how the pilot's wife felt after learning that she lost her entire family due to dad's foolish actions.

[thelittleredhairedgirlfrom]

This has to be infuriating for the families of the passengers, to know that your loved one died a terrifying, potentially painful (all unsecured objects and anyone not wearing a seatbelt would’ve been thrown around as a projectile) death because of something incredibly stupid that the pilots should have known better than to do.

[SuLokify]

Taking such risks is one thing when it's just you and yours, but another realm entirely when you have the lives of passengers in your hands. Absolutely irredeemable

[s.o.]

This is unbelievable. Not only the dumbest decision ever made in a cockpit by letting children control the plane, but also the pilots completely failing at their emergency reaction despite having miraculously many opportunities the brave plane gave them to save the situation.