Air Crash Investigation: Aeroflot Flight 593 Kid In Cockpit
Aeroflot Flight 593 refers to an accident on March 23, 1994 in which a RAL - Russian Airlines Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, crashed into a hillside in Siberia. All 75 passengers and crew were killed. 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.