
The frantic final words of a pilot who allowed his children to fly an aircraft carrying dozens of passengers were captured by the black box.
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky and his two children were among the 75 people who perished after Aeroflot Flight 593 smashed into a mountain range in Russia on 23 March, 1993.
The relief pilot had welcomed the youngsters into the cockpit during the journey from Moscow to Hong Kong, before one of them fatefully made a deadly error.
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Andrew Viktorovich Danilov was captaining the flight alongside first officer Igor Vasilyevich Piskaryov, while Kudrinsky was acting as the relief captain.
While his colleagues were resting, the dad took over and subsequently invited his Eldar, 15, and his daughter Yana, 13, into the cockpit.

Kudrinsky allowed the pair to sit in the pilot's seat in a bid to let them experience what flying a plane was like, and believed it was fairly safe as the autopilot function was switched on.
He adjusted the autopilot to make Yana think she had turned the plane, and when it was Eldar's turn, he pushed on the control stick for over 30 seconds, which proved long enough to contradict the autopilot.
This switched certain functions of the aircraft back to manual control, meaning the young lad was in partial control of the aircraft. Despite a warning light coming on, the pilots did not notice it.
Tragically, Eldar lost control of the plane and the aircraft quickly began to plummet.
Audio of the moment that Kudrinsky realised what had happened was recorded by the black box in the cockpit.
Kudrinsky could be heard shouting: "Eldar, get away! Go to the back, go to the back, Eldar! You see the danger, don't you?
"Go away, go away Eldar! Go away, go away. I tell you to go away!"
Unfortunately for everybody on board the flight, this warning came far too late.
Kudrinsky was also heard telling his children to 'get out now', and after that, the pilots set about attempting to regain control of the plane.
But in their attempts to pull out of a nosedive, they had it flying up almost vertically and stalled it again.
The aircraft spun out of control, and despite further attempts to recover the situation, they dropped too low to avoid crashing into the mountain range at a speed of 160mph.
An investigation into the crash found that if the pilots had actually let go of the controls after the aircraft started spinning, they would likely have survived, as it would have levelled out.
The airline initially tried to claim that the crew was not at fault for the crash, but when the black box audio was released, the truth was revealed.
Topics: Russia, World News, Travel



