Pilot’s chilling final words after he let his children fly plane before it crashed and killed all on board

A Russian captain let his children fly the plane that crashed and killed 63 passengers and 12 flight crew on board.

Experienced pilot Andrew Viktorovich Danilov was heading Aeroflot Flight 593, which took off from Moscow, Russia to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong on 23 March 1994.

The flight successfully departed from Sheremetyevo International Airport shortly after midnight with Danilov, first officer Igor Vasilyevich Piskaryov and relief captain Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky at the helm.

Kudrinsky's son, Eldar, 15, and daughter, Yana, 13, were on their first on-board trip with their father as the aircraft was put on autopilot towards its final destination.

While most of the 63 passengers were asleep, his daughter sat in the pilot's seat and was manually adjusting the autopilot heading setting so it made her feel like she was 'flying' the plane.

Kudrinsky let his two children in the cockpit (Getty Stock Images)

Eldar was then allowed to take the same seat and physically hold the control column.

Over a period of about 30 seconds, he unknowingly applied force conflicting with the autopilot, causing the system to partially disengage roll control (the ability of an aircraft to rotate).

A silent indicator light warned of the partial disengagement, but the crew were unable to detect it.

With roll control now manual, the aircraft gradually banked and entered a steep dive.

Kudrinsky's last words to his son were picked up by the cockpit voice recorder.

All 63 passengers and 12 flight crew on board died (YouTube/MorfoAtari)

"Eldar, get away. Go to the back, go to the back Eldar! You see the danger don't you," he said.

"Go away, go away Eldar! Go away, go away. I tell you to go away!"

The pilots regained control briefly, but their recovery inputs caused an overcorrection and the plane stalled, eventually spinning.

Although they recovered wing level again, the altitude lost was too great to avoid collision with terrain.

Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain range in the Kemerovo Oblast region of southern Russia at around 160mph.

An accident report, as shared by the New York Times, suggested that the primary cause of the incident was the crew’s decision to allow an untrained child to control the aircraft, along with a lack of crew awareness of the autopilot’s partial-disengagement mode.

Vsevolod Ovcharov, a state air-safety investigator, said in the Rossiiskiye Vesti newspaper that the boy's foot 'accidentally pushed the right pedal, sending the aircraft into a spin'.

From then on, 'the situation became irreversible', he claimed.