Imagine the disbelief of the investigators the first time they listened to the CVR.

The fact that the kid was quicker to realize that the plane was diving than the pilots makes it much more terrifying.

I can't understand why the captain didn't IMMEDIATELY take control the minute he knew something was wrong while there was yet time. This crash is unbelievable. I could see the captain letting the kids come to the door and look at the cockpit but to let them sit in his seat and take the controls is purely insane.

Ignoring the fact he let his kids fiddle with the controls, the fact they seemingly saved the plane only to be way too low and crash anyways is extremely sad.

"Would you like to pilot the plane?" "Noo." Kid had more sense than the father

They speak of all the reasons this happened and how this all could have been avoided.....however, no matter how you slice it, the father had no business letting kids take the pilot seat.

Can you imagine watching children walk into the cockpit and then a couple minutes later the plane starts bank? There is definitely dark humor in that. Whoever witnessed the kids going into the cockpit were probably thinking _"Ah sh*t, I knew it!"_

This one made my blood boil. How can someone be so irresponsible. I don't get it. RIP. What a terrible tragedy.

When the kid Said “hey why is it turning” the captain should’ve gotten right back to his seat and taken control immediately . Even if they were confused with the situation. 🙃 unbelievable..

It’s painful how this could have been avoided. It’s so sad that one mans decision changed lives forever.

I am truly convinced that this wasn’t the first time that this particular pilot had his son sitting in a pilot seat and allowed to manipulate controls while the plane was flying. The mother did mention that the kids frequently traveled with their father.

This is an example of poor training. The pilots didn't know: The autopilot will partially disengage if you put enough pressure on the controls while it is engaged The autopilot doesn't make a warning tone when it's partially disengaged (bad design btw) The procedures for manually recovering from an unusual attitude (huge bank angle, climb/dive angle) The Airbus has computerized flight controls that can recover from stalls on their own with no input from the pilot If anybody on the flight deck had known any one of those things this crash could have been avoided.

Why was the pilot buried in the “heroes” cemetery? His negligence and stupidity killed not only his own children, but everyone else on board.

It's really shocking. It's more disastrous than as if a surgeon allowing his child to operate on a patient. Gosh..RIP departed souls.

I’ve been on a binge of these. And they are almost always tragic. But this one hits differently. Malfunctions, weather, maintenance negligence, communication errors happen a lot. This was so easily avoidable and such gross negligence. I’m so sorry for the people who died because of the captain and first in command. So very sorry. It doesn’t matter how much they spin it. It was the captains fault. Not the kids. Not the uncles’. It was the captain. Period.

I feel bad for the person who was in the restroom during the final moments... R.I.P. to everyone on board

I'd be afraid to hand over the control of a car to a 15 yr kid, let alone an airplane. 75 people bite the dust as a result.😕

He shouldn't have let the kids into the cockpit, he did. He shouldn't have let them sit in the pilot's seat, he did. He shouldn't have let them touch anything, he did. He shouldn't have left him unattended without closely monitoring, he did. Even the co-pilot wasn't monitoring. He should have immediately jumped into his seat, he didn't. Oh god!

I can’t even imagine the pain of the wife and mother of the pilot “responsible” for this absolutely tragic crash. Can you imagine loosing your entire family at once plus many other people died… and how some people might have treated her? Omg. I just hope so bad that mom has found peace.

I m a new pilot. Just engaged with Emirates as a 1st officer a month ago. I don't know why these serials r my favourites

I am heartbroken for the mother. She lost both of her children and her husband due to her husband's unbelievably idiotic actions. I can't even begin to imagine how that must feel.

This is like if a surgeon let their kid operate on their patient as a "learning experience." When peoples lives are in your hands, you don't gamble with their lives by treating their lives as an educational lesson.

All these years since I first read about this incident while researching for a paper during my college, I still cannot believe how it happened. Absolutely ridiculous actions.

There seems to be so many times this plane could have recovered. Such a tragedy

This is infuriating! While there is plane full of ppl fast sleep, this guy is letting his kids play tiddly-winks with the controls. Unbelievable.

If you're the pilot you don't ever let anyone else put their hands on the controls especially a f**king child.

One thing that I find irredeemable is how the co-pilot saved the plane from the initial dive, and yet inexplicably put the plane in an absurdly steep climb well beyond its technical and performative capabilities. The whole event is an amalgamation of gross negligence on all counts.

The guy who brought them in is crazy, he could’ve just let the kids sleep and dream.

I can’t believe people lost their lives just cause an adult was stupid enough to let a child fly a plane.

These stories are so utterly heart breaking. They bring tears to my eyes. The deceased were simply living their lives & just doing what they loved most, spending time with their nearest & dearest. And now, their loved ones must move forth without their presence. May all who've died RIP. My belated condolences, sent to all respective families of the deceased.

It's amazing how most of the plane accidents end up making plane travel safer and safer

Moral of this incident: don't let anyone untrained sit and touch any part of the cockpit.

At 17:00, without hesitation the pilot should've said get up, let me sit back down. Very dumb, worse than allowing the teenager to fly.

That kid wasn't even old enough to see a R rated movie! He's flying a plane to the ground!

The pilot killed everyone with his negligence. Unbelievable

Just because they're your kids doesn't give you the right to put them in a position that could kill everyone onboard. Sure they didn't intend to mess up, but that doesn't change the fact that everyone is dead, right? Absolutely reckless and selfish!

“All they had to do was to let go” - this is so true in life sometimes

This would be the same as letting a 10-year sit in the driver’s seat of a car that’s on cruise control. Who in their right mind would ever be that stupid. The fact that this pilot allowed a child to sit in the captains seat of a commercial airliner while in flight is beyond reprehensible. It’s just goes against common sense in every way

The fact that kids were in the cockpit is irrelevant. It’s the fact that someone other than a pilot was flying the plane that’s important.

never good to hear people talking about loved ones in past tense

The moment the captain’s son notified him of trouble, the captain should have gotten back in his captain seat. That portion of the mishap was the most bizarre!

Excellent documentary. Very educational and enlightening. And sad. Thank you for showing this again.

The stupidest behavior ever! Hand an airborne plane containing precious lives into the hands of a clueless kid!

Buried in a hero’s grave. Unbelievable. They’re self centered people who cared about showing off more than safety.

I am cabin crew. I do a prayer in my mind before every flight take off and landing.I still can’t believe a pilot would allow a child (or anyone!) to sit in his seat and touch any controls.

one of the best air crash investigation episodes and the scariest as well

The father's irresponsibility in letting the young people control the plane ended everyone's lives 😢

Yea, you should start your kid on the simulator, not the production run on a real plane with real passengers flying at 30K feet.

As soon as they started seeing something off .Get the damn child out the seat Asap.

Obviously letting a child touch the controls during a commercial flight is insane, but it's interesting how the situation revealed so many other issues with auto pilot and alerting systems.

Pilot Daddy: "Don't touch this button. Especially the red one. It disables the autopilot ☺️" Son: Ok dad 😊 "turns the plane off course and crashes it into a mountain instead" 🛩💥

The daughter had the right thought. "I don't think that's a good idea."

The lesson of this incident is that DONT let the kids drive your car or PLANE!!!

Such a sad situation. I work in Aerospace and this makes me sick to my stomach😪My Condolences to the family.

Thanks for uploading this video ..soo good 👍

This is the most disgusting story in Air Crash history, while feeling so bad for the passengers I feel disgusted by the actions of the pilot being so selfish, this was a murder, murders in fact.

"Suddenly they run out of time." Well that's one way of putting it. 😥

"It's not the crew's fault!" Yes it was! By allowing those children to pretend to fly that plane the crew allowed it to crash. I was surprised that there was no audio alarm to announce when the auto-pilot was partially disengaged and eventually it would have bit someone else, so that definitely needed to be addressed. However, to simply let go and let the plane fly itself would have gone against ANY pilot in a crisis situation. The saddest thing about this whole incident is that poor child probably died knowing he had doomed everyone on that aircraft.

Wow! I’ve been on island jumpers where I’ve had to sit in the copilots seat (only one pilot) because the cabin was full. In my mind I repeated, DONT TOUCH ANYTHING! I can’t believe a pilot would let his kids touch anything and that none of the other pilots objected. Worse….that the captain didn’t jump back in his seat once the issue arose.

This has to be the saddest and most scary of these accidents.

Out of all of the plane crashes I've binge-watched so far, this one makes my blood boil the most. Not only because the pilot just handed over the lives of all passengers on board to his teenage kids, but also because of the lack of blame towards the pilots and the boy. Yeah something's wrong with the plane, but at the hands of an experienced pilot they had a much higher chance of survival. All that boy could do for a few minutes straight was following simple instructions of turning left or right...

"If you turn it to the left, where will the plane go?" "Down."

"and dont run in the first class, they will fire us" infamous last words

Pilot was beyond stupid. This makes me angry.

1st rule of advanced systems: The rookie always manages to generate an error message no one has ever seen before.

Why would you ever let a child take ahold of the yoke, in the cockpit, during flight in the first place

Why in the world wouldn't the pilot sit back down as soon as they realized there was a hint of a problem?

Rest in peace to all of you fine men, women and children on the plane.. its amazing how deeply you can care about people you never knew or ever would have known because of something like this.. im so sad for the pilot and his family, and for all the lives in that crash. I hope you all rest well. ❤️

this sounds like something that would have happened in the very earliest days of commercial aviation, the fact that it was in the 90's is mind blowing

this is outrageous, imagine your one of the passengers on that plane and you knew about this, just mindblowing.

good job eldar

All to entertain a child. You know, kids don't need to be entertained everywhere they go.

This was definitely the most infuriating one of these I've seen so far, completely avoidable

This is scary in so many ways. How did none of the pilots realize the kid was banking the plane? It blows my mind. Didn't anybody look at the instruments? Nobody felt anything?

RIP To the passengers and crew of Aeroflot Flight 593

One single sentence gives me great concern:. "pilots are now OFFERED special training...". Does that mean this training is NOT mandatory?!?!

It seems that from all these clowns the most qualified pilot was his daughter.

I’m stuck between loving that there are so many of these that I can binge watch, and sad because it means disasters like this have happened so many times 😭😭😭

I don’t understand how I just found this show yesterday, I’ve been binge watching it so much, super interesting stuff

Any deviation from normal operating procedures, no matter how seemingly insignificant can have catostrophic consequences. It seemed innocent enough, needless deaths and sorrows!

The pilot should have never allowed him to even touch the controls

If your 15 years old, you can't even have your driver's licence let alone flying an aircraft.

If you dropped Eldar into any high school circa 1975 he'd go completely unnoticed with his look and fashion, especially his haircut

More interesting than watching a documentary about sustainability for oral exam

45:50 "All they had to do was let go" As tragic and infuriating this story gets, THAT is the part that always breaks me

Just the thought of what everyone on that plane went through during those last moments is terrifying.

Sad story. I wish he didn't allow the kids in the cockpit.

The fact that other professional pilots sat and bore witness to this without doing anything is astounding

Really takes a special type of stupid to allow a child to touch anything in the cockpit on a plane carrying passengers. Even after the son pointed out the plane was turning, they left him in the chair!

When I was 6. This was before 9/11, while the plane was cruising. I remember a long flight to Australia, the pilot allowed kids into the cockpit. He and the co pilot remained in their seats and we weren't allowed to touch anything but the joy was seeing out the cockpit windows. It's a very different view from a side window. This show reminded me of that moment

This is why children are never allowed in the workplace. Period!

The irony is that if the boy and copilot just get their hands off from the control column at almost any time of the trouble, they survive...

Can we give another round of a applause for the acting in this series? Seriously, can Hollywood contact this show about hiring kid actors? Impressive stuff!

I understand that there were other factors that led to the plane going down, but literally the reason it went down is because the son drove the plane. They said themselves that the son is the one who accidentally turned off auto pilot without anyone knowing, and so he was quite literally driving the plane and making it turn. I understand that when it's a high stress situation you're not thinking clearly but maybe people who Are in risky positions you have to think clearly under stress because it was so obvious that it was the son who was turning the plane. Hes turning the plane, and it's moving in the direction hes turning it they should have realized oh hes actually driving it despite auto pilot still being on. Dad should have immediately taken over. If the parent was in the seat the entire time, even if he accidentally turned off auto pilot himself, he would have been able to correct it because he knows how to drive a plane. The son - a literal child - doesn't even know how to drive a car let alone a plane, so he should never be in a position to steer any moving vehicle. So, at the end of the day, as sad as it is, it really is the dad's fault that this happened. I'm not even anything close to a pilot but as soon as it started turning I said to myself "the son must have done something or hes doing something without realizing it" because that's what common sense tells you. The father should have thought the same and immediately taken over, but instead, he said it must be turning "on its own". Why would he think it's on his own if your son is turning it and then it's turning the direction he's turning it? Then what makes you think it's on his own? And why would it suddenly turn on its own? He didn't think quickly enough because he was too confident and comfortable. This was not a freak accident. This was negligence

I remember reading about this in McArthur job's book... As a kid in the 80s, sometimes we were let in the cockpit (not at the controls obviously,) I recall specifically the KLM 747. That seems unimaginable now post 9/11. So tragic

This shows how accurate the makers of this documentary were, with the specific game-boy of that time.

RIP 75 souls. Unbelievably reckless. 2 pilots in the cockpit. 15 year-old in the captains seat for 3 minutes. Neither pilot watching him or ready to take control. Didn't see aileron autopilot light.

Everyone that watched those kids go into the cockpit knew they were the reason they were out of control and going to crash...what an absolute nightmare.

Yana, the 13 yr girl, had more sense than her older brother, Eldar, and her Dad, Kurdrinksky. She didn't want to get near the controls, but her Dad talked her into it. Once she was in the pilot's seat, and had her hands on the controls, she didn't feel the need to try to push the control yoke by turning it, like her older brother Eldar did.

I watched till 2:27 and decided not to watch this kind of ultimate stupidity. No words left for this.