Pilot Lets 15-Year-Old Son Fly the Plane… It Ends in Disaster

Описание: March 23, 1994. Aeroflot Flight 593 was cruising smoothly at 36,000 feet on a routine overnight flight from Moscow to Hong Kong. 75 people on board. Experienced crew. Modern Airbus A310. Nothing seemed wrong.
Then, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinsky made a decision that would become one of aviation's most tragic lessons: he invited his two children into the cockpit. First his 12-year-old daughter Yana sat in the pilot's seat and "flew" the plane while the autopilot did the work. Harmless fun, it seemed.
But when his 15-year-old son Eldar took his turn, he gripped the controls harder than his sister. What nobody knew: on the Airbus A310, too much force on the yoke silently disconnects part of the autopilot — with almost no warning.
The plane began banking. Slowly at first. Then 45 degrees. Then 60. Then 70.
By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late. The aircraft entered a deadly spiral dive, screaming toward the Siberian mountains at over 14,000 feet per minute. The crew fought desperately to recover — and almost succeeded twice — but ran out of altitude.
The A310 slammed into a mountainside at 250 mph. Total disintegration. No survivors.
This is the full story of Aeroflot Flight 593 — a preventable tragedy that changed cockpit safety rules worldwide.
Rest in peace to the 75 souls aboard.