Facts about the Crash of Aeroflot Flight 593
The air crash incident of the flight 593 of Aeroflot pessenger airliner is only one of its kind. The crash of the flight 593 happened because the pilot let his 15 year old son sit on the controls of the plane. It was on March 23, 1994 that an Aeroflot Airbus passenger airliner crashed into a hillside in Siberia, Killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members. The cockpit voice recorder revealed that the pilot's 15-year-old son, Eldar Kudrinsky, was initially at the controls when the incident began, and that he had unknowingly activated an automatic feature of the A310's autopilot that many pilots at the time were unfamiliar with. There were 75 people aboard, none of them survived the crash. The pilot, Yaroslav Kudrinsky, was taking his two children on their first international flight and they were brought to the cockpit while he was on duty. With the autopilot active, Kudrinksy, against regulations, offered to let them sit at the controls. First his daughter took the pilot's left front seat. Kudrinsky adjusted the autopilot's heading to give her the impression that she was turning the plane, though she actually had no control of the plane. Next, his son Eldar took the pilot's seat. Unlike his sister, Eldar applied enough force to the steering column to contradict the autopilot for 30 seconds. A recovery procedure that the pilots were not made aware of on the A310 was that, had their hands been taken off the controls during the stall, the plane would have taken its own corrective action to recover. |
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