On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed in Siberia, killing all 75 people aboard after relief pilot Yaroslav Kudrinsky allowed his children, aged 12 and 16, to handle the aircraft’s controls. His son Eldar inadvertently disengaged the autopilot, causing the Airbus A310 to bank sharply and stall. Despite the pilots’ desperate attempts to regain control, the plane went into a fatal descent. The cockpit recorder captured Kudrinsky shouting, “Go to the back! Go to the back, Eldar!” Investigators found no mechanical failure, concluding that the disaster resulted from human error…
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