The Tragic Story of the Aeroflot 593 Crash

The date is March 23, 1994. Passengers going from Moscow to Hong Kong, queue number F-OGQS Airbus A310 they boarded a plane. But the journey gave place to an event they never expected. Moreover, because of a small ‘family visit’.

Aeroflot airline company’s flight number 593, 63 passengers and 12 flight crew, a total of With 75 deaths ended. The plane crashed into the ‘Kuznetsk Alatau’ mountain range in the Kemerovo Oblast in southern Russia.

So what caused the plane to crash?

• Photograph of the crashed plane taken in 1993.

After the plane crashed, technical examinations showed that there were no problems with the plane’s systems. Besides, the plane itself is not actually old, It was put into service only in 1992. The truth was revealed by examining the black box.

Among the passengers on the flight was the reserve pilot Yuroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky. 16-year-old son Eldar and 12-year-old daughter Yana There was also. This was quite normal.

Eldar and Yana visited their father in the cockpit of the plane during the flight. In fact, this was normal and legal at that time. But what is not normal is that Yuroslav’s He gave control of the plane to his children.

Yes, the controls of the huge 75-seater plane fell into the hands of two children:

Yana was the first to take control of the children who came to visit the cockpit. 12 year old The girl didn’t put too much pressure on the controls, thus causing the autopilot to be disabled. The aircraft continued its course under autopilot control.

But the Eldar exaggerated the situation a little. The boy is at the controls of the plane. applied too much load and caused the autopilot to fail. The blades of the aircraft were now manually controlled from the control stick. Its speed was still under autopilot control.

The pilots realized the situation late and everything started to happen in a chain:

While the aircraft controls are now in the hands of the Eldar, the aircraft started to lean to the right. The pilots questioned why the route on the screen began to change without noticing the warning lights.

But in the time before the truth was discovered, Eldar control stick pulled towards him. The nose of the plane had reached a steepness close to 90 degrees, even exceeding 45 degrees, and was looking at the sky.

Naturally, the plane He had lost a great deal of his speed. He began to fall rapidly towards the ground. To get out of the situation, the autopilot increased the power of the engines, began to pull the nose down. The plane is no longer falling, but diving into the ground.

After a while, the controls of the plane were again in the hands of the pilots. But the pilots, this time to fix the nose of the plane. applied too much force and caused the plane to start falling again by raising its nose too much.

Although the pilots had corrected these mistakes, it was too late. The plane is now too low to be saved, to an altitude of 1,300 feet (about 400 meters) had come. There was no longer any place to escape and the plane crashed into the mountain slopes.

The plane’s landing gear is off, The engines were at full power. The area where it fell is covered with a 1.5 meter thick layer of snow; It was a wooded area. The impact of the crash destroyed the plane and burned.

• The exact location where the plane crashed, 53°30’00.0″N 88°15’00.0″E

And there was the saddest part:

The data obtained from the plane showed that if the pilots did not make any intervention, the plane could actually recover from this fall on its own. That is, from the first autopilot maneuver, pilots never touched the controlsthe aircraft would complete the rescue maneuver and continue on its course.

Aeroflot denied that there was a child in the cockpit after the crash:

Aeroflot, who used the plane for rent, reported that there was a child in the cockpit. denied at first. But he admitted the truth when Moscow-based Obozrevatel magazine shared the recordings inside the cockpit.

Moreover, in-flight cockpit visits were not prohibited even after this accident:

Cockpit visit of passengers during flight, Until the attack on September 11, 2001 continued. Of course, these visits were at the initiative of the pilots and airlines. But after 9/11 all in-flight visits were banned.

The cockpit visit is currently only possible with the permission of the pilots prior to the flight. Also, pilots depending on airline rules It can also accept children in the cockpit while making flight preparations.