March 23, 1994 - Aeroflot Flight 593 - Pilot lets son sit in cockpit, who accidentally disengages autopilot. All 75 people die.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrttTR8e8-4&t=200s

Also dramatized here:

Nice summary of above dramatization here: https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/8klxms/the_crash_of_aeroflot_flight_593_analysis?sort=controversial.

https://i.imgur.com/BxkoEbc.png

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1715338717516393.webp

Aeroflot Flight 593 was a 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.

No evidence of a technical malfunction was found. Cockpit voice and flight data recorders revealed the presence of the relief captain's 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son in the cockpit.[1] While seated at the controls, the pilot's son had unknowingly partially disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons. The autopilot then disengaged completely, causing the aircraft to roll into a steep bank and a near-vertical dive. Despite managing to level the aircraft, the first officer over-corrected when pulling up, causing the plane to stall and enter into a spin; the pilots managed to level the aircraft off once more, but the plane had descended beyond a safe altitude to initiate a recovery and subsequently crashed into the mountain range. All 75 occupants died on impact.

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It still wouldn't have happened if that pilot didn't suck at correcting the stall

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Iirc the pilots didn't know that on the new plane if you fought the autopilot for long enough it would return manual control over certain aspects of flight, which the kid did

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crashed da dang jumbo jet over a ho

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What a tragedy wow

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