Why Did this Aeroflot Pilot Let His Son Take his Place in the Cockpit? 🤔 Air Disasters | Smithsonian 

One of the few crashes where there was absolutely nothing wrong with the aircraft

This is a prime example what you will call a "Crash Course" in aviation. Only in a flight simulator you will put a kid in the cockpit not an actual live flight where you got hundreds of people's lives in your hands. You also see the facial expressions of the investigators when they heard the Cockpick voice recorder.

If the captain was gone play with his kids in the cockpit, atleast he should've watch them more closely... Innocent people died for nothing, because of the captain. First officer should've been like Hell No!

one of the most stupid accidents to ever happen -_-

While seated at the controls, the pilot's son had unknowingly disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons.

This kid play Microsoft flight simulator in his pc . So don't worry.

I kinda feel bad for the kids, because they had no bad intentions, but then again, they shouldn't of been controlling the plane in the first place.

Most mind-blowing thing to me apart from the obvious stupidity is that when Eldar noticed and first said the plane was turning, none of the pilots immediately went “Jump out and let me see” They stood and pondered why it was doing that from enough distance that they couldn't get back in their seat when it had reached a nearly 90 degree bank angle. I remember giving my adult kids driving lessons in my car and drilling home first and foremost “If I say come off - feet up and away off all the pedals” and we practised it so I was sure they knew and wouldn't panic and try hitting the brakes. I could control the car with the gears, handbrake and steering but if they hit the pedals in a panic and rammed the accelerator hard we were screwed so after a few goes, I felt confident and they knew to just feet up and let me take over. This is in a car. Legally. On an quiet road. With L plates. I can't wrap my head around none of the four pilots going “Jump up let me siddown”

I have a great solution to prevent a crash like this: Don't let kids in the cockpit!

My grandfather used to say, "Don't let a child touch anything unless you want it broken.

Though a child or guest should not be in the cockpit, as soon as the son said that the plane is turning left by itself the pilot should have then jumped back in the seat right away.

The autopilot particularly disconnected. It's still controlling the pitch but not Bank. All the pilots had to do was let go of the control coloumn. By doing this the auto pilot will stabilize the plane. It's a safety feature.

Nothing wrong with the aircraft, this is pure human error. Never put your children alone in a control panel.

Another tip : DONT LET YOUR KID CONTROL A PLANE JUST GIVE THE KID A GADGET WITH A FLIGHT SIMULATOR

I watched another full documentary on this and for the life of me under no circumstance should a child sit and take over controls in a aircraft. It amazed me then the captain didn’t even stay focused when the child had the controls also. Nor did any of the others their speak up the child was encouraged to go to the controls I know we all want are children to know what we do and maybe show them but the logic of this is mind blowing it was unprofessional and against every rule in aviation this pilot killed everyone of those passengers period it’s sad but that’s the truth living or dead this was this crews fault never play with a aircraft.

The pilot flew the plane like putin flies Russia.

Of course it was reckless, but it's a ridiculous design decision to not give an audible warning when the autopilot partially disengaged.

Eldar has such a slappable face

You guys need to watch Qxir's video on this incident. It shows the insane turns, flips, and dives this plane took during the corkscrew drop that would have you vomiting, pissing and shitting yourself if you were on this plane lol such an avoidable accident tho.

That's worse than letting a kid play with a loaded gun 🤦

2:33 this clip got me dying lmao 💀

i love how smithsonian has the its brighter here ending when it comes to tramautizing plane crashes

Imagine dying because some idiot pilot let his teenage kid play with the plane you're on

The absolutely most ludicrous crash ever. The pilots messed up at every step. Unfrickinbelieveable.

00:51 that’s when the captain 👨‍✈️ should have told Eldar to move and sat back in the pilot seat immediately.

The story reminds me of my younger brother having an impulse problem. I remember certain tensity or envy set him off. One time my brother grabbed the wheel of our dad's truck, we were going around 65 and we were in the shoulder of the road in an instant. Another time my brother broke a pedal of our Grandmother's piano. I see it as most people have one decent kid and one little ass. But people tend to love that little ass.

It's such a shame what people will do for their children out of "love". This is an absolute OUTRAGE that so many innocent, unsuspecting people lost their lives over complete foolishness. Shame on that silly pilot for allowing the "love" he had for his children to outweigh any common sense. The terror those passengers went through is unimaginable, SHAMEFUL. God rest their souls

little timmy always played call of duty as a kid, guess he just wanted to get a real life 200/1 kdr.

People died just because a guy wanted to spoiled his kids.

When Eldar pushed controller hard to the left, previously turned auto-pilot went off, he disconnected it, so basically, 15yo was flying real plane by himself...

The pilot probably thought he could get away with letting his kid “fly” the plane by letting him just turn the yolk the same way the computer was already moving it . AKA he put too much trust in the Autopilot. This is already bad if your stupid enough to let your kid get in the pilots seat AT LEAST when the plane started experiencing issues you tell the damn kid to get the fuck up so you can sit down and figure it out.

To all you experienced aviators: my understanding is that Eldar unknowingly shut off the autopilot when he turned the yoke to the left. That action also set the ailerons to manual so in effect Eldar was partially flying the plane. Am I understanding that correctly? Thank you ☺️

Keep up the good work guys!!! These are so interesting!!

Ayo this channel keeps milking clips from the same episode. This accident has like 10 different videos on it already come off it smithsonian

I’m sorry but how stupid can you get to allow an untrained BOY to man a commercial plane in the first place?

Russian ego knows no boundaries

When the person who accidentally murdered alot of people is actually innocent: ik ik this is just a joke comment

Why even let the kid try to FLY :/

Dumb captain thinks a airplane is a toy

I once flew in a lite two seater with a friend who is a trained pilot; he took us up to two thousand feet, set a course parallel to the Western Australian coastline near Bunbury and told me to have a go. I'd flown Flight Simulators for years by then but was still in awe of taking control of a craft of that size at three thousand feet over the Indian ocean. So I held the stick for a while not even daring to attempt a turn until he told me to. Then he took back the control and executed a high wing, powered turn that scared the crap out of me, and next was asking me to have a go at the same thing. My chuckled response was no-way, no-chance, no-thanks. Lol 😆!!

The family should not be allowed in a flight that has their close relatives as pilot on that flight

This is when russians get drunk

He shut off the autopilot, a really easy fix would be to simply let go of the controls and the plane would stabilise the bank but none of the pilots even thought to make the kid get out of the seat. There is a reason pilots NEVER should let anyone inside the cockpit NO MATTER WHO IT IS.

Why the fuck didn't the captain get the kid out of his seat immediately and take control at the first sign of trouble??

Pilots ALWAYS HAVE KIDS IN COCKPIT, ALWAYS FLY DRUNK, ALWAYS FLY TIRED

Holy hell, in this case for real! It's hard to believe how immature and unprofessional the pilot is this is unreal, feel so bad for the passengers who had to die for the most stupid mistake made by an unprofessional pilot.

SUCH A HORRIBLE CHOICE IT COST PEOPLE THEIR LIVES RIP TO THOSE WHO PASSED MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILIES 😢

Ah yes, let me put my, underaged and unexperienced son who knows nothing about planes into the pilot seat. Sounds safe.

Imagine a Stupid Pilot let his Son doesn't know to fly a plane flys a plane, And it kills a hundreds of people ;-;

Where is the rest of the video? Why just post half of a story like this?

Really upset to see the thing that you hand over a huge responsibility of the lives of passengers to the hands of kid.

What pilot in the world would allow that? I mean his son could fly a toy aeroplane, but not a real one! Obviously that would have prevented this disaster. The pilot must choose for safety, not joy for his kid. Could a pilot possibly go to prison for that?

Such an imprudence from an experienced crew

I am still investigating this

If the Captain wanted to show off the plane to his kids, he should have done it before departure

I can not piece why his own father would let a teen into the cockpit, when hundreds of people are onboard.

Literally anyone with 1/3 of a brain would probably know that it probably isn't smart to let your children fly a passenger aircraft while you're still on the job

I'd just rather install some flight simulator in my phone/tablet lol

I like how every Smithsonian ending says it's brighter here after every plane crash

Russian pilot error. Not a shocker.

What a dumb way to die. Pure negligence by the Pilot who was trying to show off.

This is one of the worst ways to die..... 😔😔😔

Why on earth would you let this happen with your children, you have to set rules for this

Have a feeling he must have been doing something with the rudders because nothing seemed out of the ordinary

this is one of the crashes due to human error, yet its stupid. hes a captain and let his 14 yr old brainless son crash a whole plane, and plus, 1st officer should stop him

The crew were full of vodka, that's why they took it easy .

The person who putt he orange juice back in the storage is a bitfunny lol

Wow! That kid is so good at flying! 👍👍👍👍👍

Medical equivalent - doctor's son came to give him a surprise visit in the operating theatre. The doctor was in the process of delivering a baby through cesarean...the doctor allowed his 15 year old son to remove the baby out of the mother's stomach. The son accidentally pulled too hard and pulled the baby's head out of the body .... My point is, in any other profession it would have made sense to allow a kid to play with people's lives...what made him think it made sense in this scenario??? If he wanted to impress his child thar badly, he could have chattered a private plane

Don’t let kids in the cockpit, I thought it was common sense 😑😑😑

The most Russian thing ever, alongside with pet bears.

terrible that a small kid was the reason that over 50 people were killed! Why does it say 'it's brighter here.'

Legs were on the rudder which made the plane bank

2:33 Was that view necessary

Really? Letting a child into the cockpit? That shouldn't ever be allowed.

When take your kids to work day goes horribly wrong THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

Never let children drive the plane

Bringing your kids to work is one thing, but this here is somm'n else!

Meanwhile Eldar is sitting there pushing buttons and pulling levers like there is no tomorrow.

Because of a pilot now everyone who is innocent dies

A bus driver would never let their little kid with no license, drive their bus full of passengers. The ironic thing is that a plane 35,000 feet up in the air feels so much safer and inconsequential that a kid sit at the controls for a little bit. That’s the danger of an Auto Pilot control. Makes pilots complicit and believe everything is in control.

Why didn’t u just stay in your seat So Called “Dad”

The Tag line is ridiculous. Why did the pilot let his children in the cockpit. Obviously so that it shall crash 😂

0:57 Shouldn't CMD1 show on top the degrees of the bank?

Мне очень плохо становится когда я вижу как на заднем плане стоит и плачет яна

I hope they've changed their rules and keep people, ALL PEOPLE out of the cockpit. They do not need the distraction afterall their job is to transport people safely. How can they do that being distracted with a bunch of thrill-seekers in the cockpit with them. SHAMEFUL and an OUTRAGE

That fake fire though…

As commented below, the reaction to the anomaly was not immediately to swap places, which must have been the cause to the catastrophe.

To make this accident dumber, The pilots where given a "Hero's Burial".

2:34 BRO CHILL

The son had caused the accident

Im here from mr ballen

good plan, bad execution

Kids, that's why you don't go in the cockpit until you are qualified to even BE in that cockpit.

Son to Dad, are we going in the heaven? Dad: Yes my son we trying best.

The truth is the daughter was just sitting there and applying no force on the yoke,but when the bigger brother came in He applied force

should of asked the passengers for approval

This has to be one of the most stupid cases of negligence I have ever seen. If I was aware that a pilot decided to let their kids take control of the yoke, let alone be in the cockpit I would be slamming on the cockpit door to try and get the pilot to see sense.

Disgraceful

Sorry to sound bitter if I do but.. I don't like the face that they hardly talk about to the victims family's. They talk to the russan mother of the son and her husband who caused the whole thing and broke several aviation rules. Going into cockpits should be strictly a aviation museum thing. Also for the 3, the father, son, and daughter buried in hero's graves in Russia, well ok... but the pilot father I not he caused a lot of distress to the victims family for years to come. I wish Mayday/air Crash Investigation wouldn't hold them on a pedestal on their programmes. Anyhow rant over.... they are Russian at the end of the day so what do you expect....