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@natma relnam Not all of them. There was nothing preventable about Catus 1549 and most other pilots would probably have taken out a building. Aeroflot is definitely one of the most egregious examples, right after Eastern Airlines 401.
@natma relnam not really, sometimes freak accidents happen and even a broken part getting missed in an inspection is pretty hard to prevent. Letting a kid fly a plane is much more preventable.
You think this was the pilots' fault? Obviously the plane was not behaving correctly. There was a huge software glitch in the system. with the autopilot misbehaving. This could have easily happened without children in the cockpit. Obviously, the plane company threw the pilots under the bus for their own design fuckups.
Well, considering they didnt know the plane well enough to just tell the kid to let go of the yoke, so the plane would right itself, I think, its another clue, that these guys were NOT properly trained in the plane and its system, b4 they were sent flying it.
That kid shouldn't have been sitting there, period! It doesn't matter if his dad was tricking them or not. U don't play games with passengers aboard. This makes me so angry. I do not believe this would have happened if his kids weren't in the cockpit .
Before 9/11 it wasn't at all uncommon for pilots (also in the west) to invite children on board into the cockpit. Obviously, the kids wouldn't be allowed to touch stuff, let alone fly, but once the plane was in cruise and on autopilot, the flight attendants would often bring kids there to allow them to see the cockpit, the pilots would also answer questions
Even after 9/11! My brother was allowed to enter the cockpit in 2007, when he was 8, but obviously enough nobody thought it would be wise to let him fly the bloody thing
This makes me so angry that all those innocent people lost their lives due to the Commander letting his kids be in control of a plane! My heart breaks for the passengers and their families! 😔 I can't even imagine the pain.
I feel worst for his kid. His last thought on this earth was that he killed everyone on that plane, including himself and his little sister, even though it was definitely not his fault.
This is going to sound WILD but I remembered a past life where I was on this flight and I died, I have the memory of how I felt and what i was thinking about when I was panicking before I passed out from fear when the plane was going down. I thought about my family and my girlfriend, we were just about to do something like have a baby or get married and I was utterly broken and pissed. I remembered i was a handsome man born in 1963. Then I remember before I came down to earth as the person I am now, talking to god and telling god how I wouldn’t get over this and that I was so mad that I had to leave my girlfriend and my mom so unexpectedly. I remember I was an atheist russian man and I was dumbfounded that it was happening and I knew that was it and I was going to die. I was so mad and broken hearted, it wasnt something I ever saw coming or was ever scared of. I’m not scared of flying in this life and I quickly (and always have) fall asleep whenever I get on a plane, sometimes even before we take off. I don’t feel like i will ever be in another plane crash because god said that my turmoil would be made up for in this life. I told god that I would refuse to let go of the loss of my girlfriend and mother and god told me, “it’s ok, you don’t have to. But you will see in time”. I should say that I’m not religious, more spiritual, so this memory was kind of surprising to myself. I know that sounds crazy but it’s just the truth. It was like these memories downloaded into my mind and they arent mine but they were mine. I experienced turmoil and loss for a life I’m not even living currently and it feels very real.
@@chinadoll534 the funny thing is, I was raised christian when I was young and made to go to church until 18 and after that I wasn’t religious, more just spiritual. Id still not consider myself religious, more spiritual but all I can say is that since I was young I had this memory of before I was alive, then after remembering this past death of mine I remembered the context of me & god sitting in the cloud above my great grandmas house (who was the most influential woman in my life and she loved me dearly). The context was that I was complaining to god about how it was unfair I had to leave russia and my family, and god was showing me some of my life now and reasoning with me that it would be a good life and trying to get me to be ok with coming back to earth despite my stubbornness of not wanting to leave my past behind; I could see a synapse of my life and I apparently was good with it because when god pointed at my grandmas house and telepathically said, “is this acceptable?” I said yes and then I don’t remember anything else until I was about 1.5 or something
Obviously letting the kid FLY A PLANE is insane enough, but how the pilots did not immediately get the kid away from the controls the attosecond it tilted in the wrong direction is just unreal.
@@kevin6293 Yo, common sense and then sheer stupidity is not the same as "knowing better in hindsight" you really don't think it's crazy they brought their kids up to the controls? this is why women live longer.
@@kevin6293 HA HA HA! "Captain Hindsight"? what's wrong with you?! this is the most foolish thing to do, letting a CHILD fly an AEROPLANE is beyond bad judgment, it's suicide!
Imagine a surgeon doing this. "Kids, would you like to retract the frontal lobe in this patient's brain? Ooooh watch out there is a big artery there..." I'd say the key factor was the blatant violation of the "sterile cockpit" rule.
Sterile cockpit refers to taking off and landing, when nothing is to be discussed but procedures to ensure focus is on the craft. When at altitude, they can talk about whatever.
Sterile cockpit rule only applies for critical phases, so take off and landing. After that, with the autopilot on, there's less to do and even now pilots will chat and even read newspapers, while still monitoring the radios and the instruments. However, prior to 9/11, kids (not just those of the pilots) would be allowed to visit the cockpit, of course without touching anything, just to see and maybe ask the pilots some questions
To be honest the reality of what happen is much worst than your example because pilots have hundreds of lives in their hands. But yes I agree, the fact that the father was assuming his son would operate the plane properly and understand his pilot terms is ridiculous. Especially since the pilots themselves didn't properly understand how this Western plane worked. Sadly, the kids trusted their father's judgement and in the end he's the main reason of their deaths and the ones of all the passengers.
As a pilot, I can congratulate you for such a comprehensive and very well-made video with great explanation. A lot of people confuse certain things due to the high complexity of aviation. You did a great job!
I'm far from a specialist, however, as far as I'm aware aviation nowadays is much less complex for the pilot itself since driving a plane is heavily automated, what makes it "complex" is essentially knowing what knobs and buttons do what, and the knowledge on how to properly control the aircraft in case of an emergency(which the pilots failed miserably to do in this example). PS: From what I know, the only things which aren't automated in-flight are landing and maybe the route as they're complex tasks to automate with logical computing. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
@@rafa_br34 actually, the automation is what makes it more complex nowadays. Pilots have to thoroughly study all the systems to exactly understand what's going on, properly monitor the automation and correct it if necessary. Landings can be performed automatically, the take-offs not (yet). Further challenges are rising due to new implementation of navigation techniques and an increase in traffic volume. Of course, pilots still need to be able to hand-fly their aircraft, though, this part is quite reduced.
Decades ago I had to have a spinal cord stimulator battery surgically replaced. The surgeon asked me if his eight year old son could be present. I said "sure." The little boy entertained me, told me stupid jokes. But he never held a scalpel. Big difference.
Imagine the embarrassment, fear, guilt the dad felt in those last minutes…. I know he was so embarrassed knowing the plane was going down for his carelessness
I feel more for the kids who had no control over that, they got invited to do something by their dad trusting him and then their fear and guilt as the last thing they are hearing is their dad screaming "get away" :/ breaks my heart.
embarrassed? In that situation? wow....with everything happening so fast that`s the last thing that would`ve went through my head I`d think the same goes for the pilot.
I got the ride of a lifetime landing in a hurricane, that was mind bending this ride must have like riding in a drink mixer. Very sad but it's really inconceivable that three pilots though it was ok to put children in front of the controls with passengers on board
You get desensitized to how dangerous things are when you do them regularly. The army teaches that complacency kills, this is a perfect example of that. This is just like doing your makeup driving down the highway or smoking a cigarette around flammable materials, you get away with it enough times that it takes an accident to remind you how stupid your actions are. Unfortunately sometimes people die learning that lesson, and it's easy to play Monday morning quarterback looking back at the events.
Well thats true. But its also true that you were just in a dangerous situation. I ride a moto. Every time i get on that thing its a RISK. I will only add to the risk having jumped on it. Did i ask to get hit? No but what i do is risky as a baseline. Am i desensitized? Maybe a little. Sometimes i catch myself and rechecking my habits. I might die on that thing. Its a risk i take. The same can be said for anyone doing anything that has risk. The more you do it the more comfortable you are with it. But that does not take away the fact that you are IN a risky situation. No amount of skill can prevent certain things from happening which is why its considered risky.
Yea they went from peacfull slumbers to the plane going buck wild. Yea talk about a rude awakening only to find your death RIGHT there in the seat next to you. And no one went sleeping. Everyone was wide awake for that.
@@wbsc56 It is possible to be hateful of the dead y'know. Or you could just be pissed off at entitled parents who think their kids are exempt from rules. There's plenty of those kinds of people to be mad at.
Ethiopian airlines 961 has to be there. Ffs they wanted to go to Australia, with fuel just to reach Cote D'Ivoire. Others are the 2 Malaysian airlines, MH17 and MH370.
That is so sad. These kids were just having fun, and then their dying thoughts were probably about how they thought it was their fault that they were going to die.
as a russian myself… this is heartbreaking. my mom told me that when the actual reason of the crash was revealed the whole country was in shock. shame on our government and on the pilots. may the passengers’ souls be blessed. покойтесь с миром. 💔
The most astonishing part to me is Pliskarev yelling to turn the plane to the RIGHT over and over again. I mean when he was questioned, he said “Don’t you see or what?” I know these situations are very chaotic and pilots can lose their bearings in certain situations, but this was ridiculous
dude should’ve never been flying an aircraft in the first place you could see when the first signs of trouble weirdo. He was confused as fuck he wasn’t asking his kid rhetorically what was going on he was literally asking the kid like he expected him to have an answer as if the kid is supposed to know, what the hell is going on it’s disturbing the lack of training and capabilities. Some of these smaller airlines pilots have not to mention just the epically poor judgment involved in letting the child into the cockpit in the first place I mean it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that that is, an extremely bad idea that would be like me bringing my kids into the operating room when I’m performing a surgery and letting them perform tasks in the surgery no matter how simple like a take this surgical scissors and cut here or pull the suture or hand me that scalpel I mean it doesn’t matter if it’s a task they’re capable of doing or not it’s not something you do and somebody can say that flying a plane and surgery or two different things and that’s true but it’s no different the concept and the idea is no different. It’s still an incredibly stupid piss, poor unprofessional decision, and in this case, many people lost their lives because of it, no fault of their own and completely outside their control and that’s fucked up and considering that it was Russia they probably were not even awarded any kind of damages
Such an awful accident. Imagine being a passenger and going through this. Also, imagine being the wife of the pilot. You've lost your children because your husband was an idiot.
I understand wanting to show your kids where and how you work and for what all the dials and buttons are. But not while they’re in mid air with 75 other people on board. This has got to be one of the most preventable accidents i’ve ever heard of.
it would even be one thing I realized it’s against professional procedures and policies, but it’s one thing to let your kids come up to the cockpit and watch you stand behind you and look out through the windshield whatever you know that’s one thing but you actually put the kid in the pilot seat and have them fucking with controls is completely just on another level
Planes WANT to fly straight and level. Without any input, a plane will typically return itself to straight and level flight by itself. You have to REALLY boner it up to cause something like this.
Yup. I’ve been told if something’s going wrong, let go or the yoke and set your watch. Not literally set your watch, but that just means let go and give it a few seconds to right itself before you do anything that’ll be beyond recovery because planes are designed to fly straight and level, and literally WANT to.
The thing is, Eldar partially turned off the autopilot by pushing on the yoke hard and long enough. A310 only gave a visual indocation of that, which the pilots didn't notice. The ailerons were in manual control and since they are responsible for the bank, I doubt doing nothing from that point forward would have prevented the crash
When the other pilot is out of his seat then you're the pilot flying. I fail to understand why Piskarev wasn't monitoring the situation closely, especially as non-standard maneuvers were performed. By the time things started to go south he had totally lost his situational awareness, he didn't even understand which way the plane was turning...
The moment I heard the children should fly the plane I cringed so hard. There was actually a reddit story once where a passenger broke into the cockpit so her kid could fly the plane. Received a serving tray to the back of her head because she had assaulted the stewardess. The kid never even left its seat.
I've heard about this story from different sources, and you do a great job of bringing the events from the black box come to life. It is hard to get a great perspective on what exactly is going on from the original black box recording. I mean, you can tell it was in banks and rolls that a large passenger plane typically wouldn't be in, but the rate of descent is hard to gather from the original recording. You get right to the point in your presentations and keep to important facts to simplify the often complex chain of events that cause accidents like this to happen. Keep up the great work. It reminds me of those old disaster episodes of Modern Marvels on History Channel before it went to shit with all the reality television and Ancient Aliens crap. So it is much appreciated.
I remember watching a documentary about this disaster and when the investigators was investigating the crash they couldn't believe that a pilot could be so unprofessional then they have his daughter flying a plane.
I wish I couldn't believe that they were so sexist to have more of a problem with his daughter flying the plane than his son crashing it. But that is not the world we live in.
@@degenetron7590 Different era, different world (Russia, in certain ways, works as a completely different culture to Europe and America). Sometimes I guess they just didn't put much of a value on life. Otherwise, you can't really explain Stalingrad and giving a rifle to your troops but only one per 2 soldiers. And go, retake the city!. Sheesh.
Kind of messed up how some people still seem to blame Eldar at all. He really did nothing wrong, the responsibility is almost completely on his father and the co-pilot, and to a much lesser extent the lack of proper autopilot disengagement notification for that plane. Imagine your father yelling at you to get out of the way as you're being held in place by insane g-forces in the pilot seat of a commercial airliner crashing to the ground. Love to all the victims of this tragedy and their families.
He moved the control yoke, trying to turn it to the right. He was a catalyst that contributed to this accident. The ultimate responsibility lies with the Captain though.
So very sad for all the innocent lives taken for such a careless thrill for one's family members. The children were not at fault and those last moments must have been terrifying.
I've seen tons of air disaster videos from different channels, this is maybe the 4th or 5th in-depth video I watch on this specific incident and it still shocks me like the first time I learned of it. One of the saddest ones to me because of the reason for the crash, and how everyone must have felt, especially Eldar, who surely felt immense guilt in his final moments despite the pilots being the ones who should have never allowed him at the controls in the first place.
Eldar should’ve never touched anything in the cockpit. Better yet… the pilots should’ve never left the pilots chair. Common sense was a trait this family didn’t have.
Wow! The pilots made such a bad decision and paid the ultimate price. Can’t imagine they thought it was okay to take such a careless risk with people’s lives. This is absolutely disgusting. RIP
I'm an avgeek and I've seen documentaries about many, many aviation accidents. Russian pilots (largely Aeroflot) have a pretty bad track record all in all, but this one is among the most bizarre air crashes in history - and among the most preventable ones, too.
it would’ve saved me significant countless thousands of dollars to fly with smaller airlines over the years in my transcontinental flying habits, but I never did the reason being safety not only is maintenance of their aircraft, known to be extremely poor with a lot of those airlines, but they also have very poor pilot training and safety records as well and catastrophic crashes, failures, mechanical failures, and things like bombings and hijackings those are possible and they have happened but by and large the majority of crashes are a result of pilot error or poor aircraft maintenance so I feel like you get what you pay for and that’s in a nutshell exactly why I would never use one of these smaller airlines I mean summer known to be worse than others but across the board they all scored pretty badly and there’s a reason why their fares and that’s in a nutshell exactly why I would never use one of these smaller airlines I mean summer known to be worse than others but across the board they all scored pretty badly and there’s a reason why their fares are are so much cheaper. You know they have to cut corners somewhere and to me I guess I place a lot of value on my own life and want to try to mitigate any eliminate any potential risks when flying.
The truly sad thing is all they had to do was let the steering controls go and the plane would have righted itself automatically but they where not given this information, Amazing.
there is a reason why! for Russians negligence, not following a protocol, partially due to corruption is NORMAL!!! so it was acceptable for everyone on all levels. I think some things changed a bit after this international scandal but not much and note how even the goverment knew about it and tried to cover it up!? why? because for them it's socially acceptable, you important person, high in the hierarchy, then anything is ok for you.
@@gopro369 And in true Russian fashion, they tried to cover it up and hide evidence. They had a history of doing that even at the expense of people's lives. Kursk, Chernobyl, Russian astronaut, rocket explosions, etc
I've watched a couple of documentary videos about this disaster now. And every time I come away with the same question: What was the cabin crew _thinking?!_
The cabin crew refers to people like flight, attendants, not the actual flight crew. I’m sure, just like the passengers by the time they realized some thing was seriously the matter the plane was already subjected to such a strong G force that they would’ve been essentially paralyzed in their seats, I can’t imagine what they would be thinking. I mean holy fuck what the fuck praying probably as far as I’ve seen. There was no announcement given to the passengers so they would be left to assume the worst. You know it was dark outside. I’m sure they could see a little bit of the terrain, but moving at those speeds, and under those G forces there probably wasn’t much time to fully appreciate the situation
I remember watching a documentary about this disaster and when the investigators were investigating the crash, they couldn't believe that a pilot could be so unprofessional that they have their son flying a plane.
The most infuriating thing about this crash is how ridiculously preventable it was. What in the hell was that pilot thinking by not only allowing his kid in the cockpit, but putting him at the controls? Everybody onboard died needlessly because of his stupidity.
I can't imagine doing that with not only with your family on board but with passengers on board. I'm sure if he let the passengers know that he was going to let his kids fly for a few minutes then nobody would've gotten on that plane. I can't imagine what they went through
It's almost comical how poorly these pilots performed under pressure. Got the aircraft mostly under control twice, before screwing up a third time? COME ON!
Son: "Dad, the plane is turning by itself" Dad: "Can't you see I'm busy talking to your sister?" *Some seconds later* Dad: "Is the plane turning by itself?" Son: "Yes" Dad: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
@@FerencKraniczhe’s still a kid. It’s a reason they need parental consent for a lot. Even if it was his idea to drive, dad should have said no because he’s the adult 💀
The kid kept pushing the controls around as far as they would go even after his dad turned around and was talking to his daughter who was bugging him with questions, that’s the part that gets me
So in a quick summary, the pilots got too confident and try to save everyone and killed everyone in turn, because if they would’ve let go of the controls at any moment, the auto pilot would’ve saved them
yeah, and we’ve seen that time and time again with these really poorly trained pilots that fly into a panic the second they get a stall warning or some thing you know, and aerodynamic style is very easy to recover from and yet they would do the exact opposite of what you should do there’s been countless cases of that happening and that causing the aircraft to obviously lose lift and basically fall right out of the sky because they’re not maintaining enough speed and they let the plane nose up too far but whether manual or auto pilot it should’ve been easily noticed and easily compensated for and corrected before anyone really even realized anything there was obviously too many cooks in the kitchen. Nobody was paying attention, and nobody knew what the hell they were doing. Least of all those poor kids who probably fell to their death feeling responsible in someway when truly, it was just the epically poor judgment of their father and the other pilots, that caused everybody their lives that day, it’s really kind of infuriating to think about
Can you imagine being the pilot's wife and mother of the two kids? Holding funerals and your whole (epically stupid) family being blamed for slaughtering the entire plane's passengers and crew?
It's the adults fault for letting them inside the cockpit without anyone inside objecting it is a bad Idea. What do you expect a kid would do when piloting a plane? Of course, it'll crash. But, if the adults have 3 or more braincells and didn't pull this stunt with their kids, this could've never happen.
The older wire frame visualization looks a lot more spooky. Also, you have to keep in mind that outside the cockpit, the surrounding would have been pitch black, so the passengers and even the piolets were just thrown around with no visual indicators. They just had to rely on instruments. What an awful tragedy. Great sim view though.
What’s really f’d up and sad is that Kudrinsky was clearly a skilled airman… getting a passenger aircraft out of a flat spin is nearly impossible, and he did it albeit too late. Goes to show what talent means without forethought. RIP to all.
he clearly was not a skilled airman, they appear to have made nearly zero of the correct adjustments in flight. Not to mention it doesnt look like they ever entered a flat spin.
This video is perfectly produced! The effects are enough to enhance the experience, yet not obnoxious. The visual details are spot-on! Excellent work! A+ 👍
I've heard about this on the other channels and honestly every time I hear about this accident. I'm always wondering what the hell was the captain thinking? Allowing his children to enter the cockpit (which was against aviation regulations.) This is something that I will never understand. This is why I don't blame Eldar for the crash. I blame his father the captain and the other pilot. This was pure negligence from the very beginning. I mean, I can understand that he was proud of his profession but to put his children in the cockpit Knowing that something could possibly go very wrong and it did go very wrong that's something that I don't understand
I cant believe i had close enough experience like the kids in this flight of being allowed into the cockpit of a flying plane. Back in the late 90s, my dad was the captain to a flight that my family rode to visit family. After we were in cruising altitude and the fasten seatbelt was off, my dad invited me and my younger sister to visit the cockpit. We were curious but stood in place upon entering as we greet his colleagues and we were shy and didnt do anything and quietly ushered back to our seats. It was after our plane landed that we were allowed to sit in the seats but not touch the controls and have our pictures taken. Afterwards, we did had more flights like that but they were after 9/11 so we were never allowed to enter the cabin even as kids of the pilot.
It was normal for kids to stand and watch, but never to get in the seat and be handed the yoke. What you and I had was NOTHING like what these kids had.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandriaif I remember rightly we were allowed to sit in the co pilots seat when we were kids. We didn’t touch any controls but it was fairly normal before 9/11c, after 9/11 the world became a place of hysteria and fear.
this is literally like a comedy sketch. everyone freaking out and running around screaming while the kid plummets the plane into the ground. everyone yelling to fix the plane or whatever....meanwhile none of the trained pilots simply take the wheel to fix it
He was just that. A kid. It's not his fault. Poor guy probably spent his last minutes terrified and feeling like shit for the outcome of a situation he wasn't prepared to handle.
I like how the report specifically mentioned the pilot brought in his son. The kid was innocent and just wanted to see what his dad did but the pilot should have known there would be consequences. If he wanted to show his kids, he should have showed them while they were grounded, not in air. Reckless pilot
I was a little confused , but then you stated the date. The 90s in Russia were such a mess , im not suprised a child was let into the cockpit and allowed the fly the aircraft. The Country was in shambles.
I heard thet the rest of the crew didn 't dare complaining about the kids in the cockpit because the Captain was very arrogant, self-righteous and a show off!
Wow, this is beyond shocking. All those families who lost loved ones, and all those rescuers who had to find bodies. The pilot wanting his kids to experience what he does, is so irresponsible. Reminds me of the captain of the ship which tipped over several years back, wanting to show off his ship and came into shore too far. I cannot comprehend what these families thought when they found out there loved ones died because kids were flying it, and then to have no justice and a pathetic compensation paid to them. My heart goes out to them
Sorry but can't believe that anyone would let children in a cockpit, even if it's their children. Feel for all the people who lost their lives because of the kids. Heartbreaking
Not because of the kids, but because of entitled parents. They exist everywhere, and they cause problems wherever they go. The kids were just doing what their parent told them was ok to do, it's not their fault their father was an entitled idiot who felt risking the lives of innocent passengers was fine if it meant giving his kids an experience.
@@Milkikomori it's both really but you're right. I couldn't have kids so don't understand the situation between parents & children. Thanks for pointing it out. Appreciate it.
Wait. Why is your first instinct to blame the children? 👀 the fully grown adult who's piloting the plane full of passengers made the decision to let them do it. Why wasn't he the first one you'd assign the blame to? Kids frontal lobes aren't even fully developed yet, they can't calculate risk like an adult, don't have the same impulse controls nor did they understand the risk. Like the blame is 100% on the grown ass adults in the cockpit who broke protocol. But yeah, let's put the blame on literal children. That makes perfect sense.
@@aniassantiago6445 your right but I couldn't have children so I guess just don't understand why adults would be so stupid as to risk the lives of the people on board, but they definitely did & it also cost them their lives as well. Rip to everyone & sorry about blaming the kids, it's both.
@Deborrah Shiffer you don't have to have kids to see the flaws in blaming kids for adult mistakes tho. You can't expect kids to make adult decisions, that's the adults role to be responsible and follow protocol.
6:28 - Kudrinsky to his daughter: "Don't run there, or they'll kick us out of work." Riiight. Because letting a child run in the aisle would be such a foolish, risky thing to do.
Inertia is a helluva thing. In the movie "Flight" this is why Denzel Washington prohibits his co-pilot from removing his harness. If G-Forces increase too much while your out of the seat, you're not getting back into it or anywhere near the controls.
If this was a television episode, it'd be jumping the shark. I can't comprehend being skilled enough to recover a plane like that so many times in a row and yet be so incompetent that you put it in that situation that many times in a row.
This video makes me so unbelievably angry the fact that 75 people lost their lives because you had to let your children into the cockpit for absolutely no reason
I've seen a few other airplane accident videos where this same thing happened, only no kid in the cockpit. The pilot bumped the control column or was pulling on the control column when they turned on the auto pilot, so the autopilot never fully engaged. One I watched recently, the plane started banking right but they thought the autopilot was banking the plane intentionally because they had changed the heading to the right. It wasn't until they were banking around 45 degrees did they notice something was wrong. Then the pilot panicked and they crashed.
@@rilmar2137 Yes I think that is the most recent one. Once the pilot realized something was wrong, instead of holding the controls left to recover, he kept moving the controls left right left right left right in a panic.
I remember going up to the cockpit many times as a child. I remember one time up in the cockpit there was a sunrise, and even being young I still comprehended how beautiful it was
Yeah, I mean they used to let kids up there to get a little pilot swing and say hi to the pilot and just look out through the windshield but they were putting us behind the controls and letting us push buttons and levers and completely man the plane either you know those are two very different things
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Recreating it in flight simulator was genius, soooo atmospheric, it felt like I was there, really gave the story a "punch"
I find it hilarious that was super instantly tell it was Microsoft flight simulator
This is some awesome writing and storytelling... I'd love to see your written transcript of this... Can I?
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I blame the kid.
This has got to be one of the most preventable plane accidents EVER.
@natma relnam Not all of them. There was nothing preventable about Catus 1549 and most other pilots would probably have taken out a building. Aeroflot is definitely one of the most egregious examples, right after Eastern Airlines 401.
@natma relnam not really, sometimes freak accidents happen and even a broken part getting missed in an inspection is pretty hard to prevent. Letting a kid fly a plane is much more preventable.
It's bizarre how one of them was telling the kid to roll right, despite the fact that it was already at 90°.
Ah yes we couldn't miss the "this was the most preventable accident" comment in every video about this accident 😐
@@pseudotasuki kid could have used some common sense to realise and roll left instead, but getting multiple directions is always hard
Can you imagine losing a loved one like this then finding out why it even happened in the first place?
I would be *FUMING* and would sue the airline for all its worth.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 Insert obligatory: In mother Russia, airline sues you for all its worth.
Honestly it would be unimaginable, the rage, the sadness the confusion of why a pilot would risk his entire planes worth of lives like this
I would happily commit sepuku and find him in hell
You think this was the pilots' fault? Obviously the plane was not behaving correctly. There was a huge software glitch in the system. with the autopilot misbehaving. This could have easily happened without children in the cockpit. Obviously, the plane company threw the pilots under the bus for their own design fuckups.
I find it interesting how trained seasoned pilots were asking a teenager “why is the plane turning?”
They were probably fishing to see if the kid did something
Well, considering they didnt know the plane well enough to just tell the kid to let go of the yoke, so the plane would right itself, I think, its another clue, that these guys were NOT properly trained in the plane and its system, b4 they were sent flying it.
@八百比丘尼Yaobikuni it's entirely the pilots fault. What are you talking about? Lol
@@yaobikuni1349 clearly huh
That kid shouldn't have been sitting there, period! It doesn't matter if his dad was tricking them or not. U don't play games with passengers aboard. This makes me so angry. I do not believe this would have happened if his kids weren't in the cockpit .
I just LOVE how you actually used flight simulator footage, there is just something about it
Agreed. Helped paint the picture 💯
Is the crash data import-able? If so, that's awesome
The original CVR data exists displayed on period hardware as wireframe.
Settle down
There a youtuber who does every plane crash in flight sim.
i just cant imagine, the plane you're on starts to go down just a few moments after seeing kids enter the flight deck
Before 9/11 it wasn't at all uncommon for pilots (also in the west) to invite children on board into the cockpit. Obviously, the kids wouldn't be allowed to touch stuff, let alone fly, but once the plane was in cruise and on autopilot, the flight attendants would often bring kids there to allow them to see the cockpit, the pilots would also answer questions
@@rilmar2137 true. those were simpler times...better times
Even after 9/11! My brother was allowed to enter the cockpit in 2007, when he was 8, but obviously enough nobody thought it would be wise to let him fly the bloody thing
If I ever see a child enter the cockpit of a commercial airplane, I'm fearing for my life!
This makes me so angry that all those innocent people lost their lives due to the Commander letting his kids be in control of a plane! My heart breaks for the passengers and their families! 😔 I can't even imagine the pain.
I feel worst for his kid. His last thought on this earth was that he killed everyone on that plane, including himself and his little sister, even though it was definitely not his fault.
I would be. SOOOOOO horrified if I lost a loved one in this way. I don't know how one would even begin to process it.😢
This is going to sound WILD but I remembered a past life where I was on this flight and I died, I have the memory of how I felt and what i was thinking about when I was panicking before I passed out from fear when the plane was going down. I thought about my family and my girlfriend, we were just about to do something like have a baby or get married and I was utterly broken and pissed. I remembered i was a handsome man born in 1963. Then I remember before I came down to earth as the person I am now, talking to god and telling god how I wouldn’t get over this and that I was so mad that I had to leave my girlfriend and my mom so unexpectedly. I remember I was an atheist russian man and I was dumbfounded that it was happening and I knew that was it and I was going to die. I was so mad and broken hearted, it wasnt something I ever saw coming or was ever scared of. I’m not scared of flying in this life and I quickly (and always have) fall asleep whenever I get on a plane, sometimes even before we take off. I don’t feel like i will ever be in another plane crash because god said that my turmoil would be made up for in this life. I told god that I would refuse to let go of the loss of my girlfriend and mother and god told me, “it’s ok, you don’t have to. But you will see in time”. I should say that I’m not religious, more spiritual, so this memory was kind of surprising to myself. I know that sounds crazy but it’s just the truth. It was like these memories downloaded into my mind and they arent mine but they were mine. I experienced turmoil and loss for a life I’m not even living currently and it feels very real.
@@makdoes definitely doesn’t sound crazy. This is you’re experience. Therefore God is real. God!!!
@@chinadoll534 the funny thing is, I was raised christian when I was young and made to go to church until 18 and after that I wasn’t religious, more just spiritual. Id still not consider myself religious, more spiritual but all I can say is that since I was young I had this memory of before I was alive, then after remembering this past death of mine I remembered the context of me & god sitting in the cloud above my great grandmas house (who was the most influential woman in my life and she loved me dearly). The context was that I was complaining to god about how it was unfair I had to leave russia and my family, and god was showing me some of my life now and reasoning with me that it would be a good life and trying to get me to be ok with coming back to earth despite my stubbornness of not wanting to leave my past behind; I could see a synapse of my life and I apparently was good with it because when god pointed at my grandmas house and telepathically said, “is this acceptable?” I said yes and then I don’t remember anything else until I was about 1.5 or something
Obviously letting the kid FLY A PLANE is insane enough, but how the pilots did not immediately get the kid away from the controls the attosecond it tilted in the wrong direction is just unreal.
So insane and bazar !!
Thanks Captain Hindsight
Or just watching it bank. "Hey, that isn't right. Hmmm...."
@@kevin6293 Yo, common sense and then sheer stupidity is not the same as "knowing better in hindsight"
you really don't think it's crazy they brought their kids up to the controls?
this is why women live longer.
@@kevin6293 HA HA HA! "Captain Hindsight"? what's wrong with you?! this is the most foolish thing to do, letting a CHILD fly an AEROPLANE is beyond bad judgment, it's suicide!
Imagine a surgeon doing this. "Kids, would you like to retract the frontal lobe in this patient's brain? Ooooh watch out there is a big artery there..."
I'd say the key factor was the blatant violation of the "sterile cockpit" rule.
Sterile cockpit is not applicable. Check your FARs.
Sterile cockpit refers to taking off and landing, when nothing is to be discussed but procedures to ensure focus is on the craft. When at altitude, they can talk about whatever.
Sterile cockpit rule only applies for critical phases, so take off and landing. After that, with the autopilot on, there's less to do and even now pilots will chat and even read newspapers, while still monitoring the radios and the instruments. However, prior to 9/11, kids (not just those of the pilots) would be allowed to visit the cockpit, of course without touching anything, just to see and maybe ask the pilots some questions
To be honest the reality of what happen is much worst than your example because pilots have hundreds of lives in their hands. But yes I agree, the fact that the father was assuming his son would operate the plane properly and understand his pilot terms is ridiculous. Especially since the pilots themselves didn't properly understand how this Western plane worked. Sadly, the kids trusted their father's judgement and in the end he's the main reason of their deaths and the ones of all the passengers.
To be fair they sometimes ask the dad if they want to cut the cord. But yes, lets all just stick to our jobs.
As a pilot, I can congratulate you for such a comprehensive and very well-made video with great explanation. A lot of people confuse certain things due to the high complexity of aviation. You did a great job!
dont blow your own whistle so hard lil bro, its not that complex 😂
@@rbbl_ aviation training costs around 70-100k in total and only a small percentage are able to be a pilot in the end tf you mean not complex gtfo
I'm far from a specialist, however, as far as I'm aware aviation nowadays is much less complex for the pilot itself since driving a plane is heavily automated, what makes it "complex" is essentially knowing what knobs and buttons do what, and the knowledge on how to properly control the aircraft in case of an emergency(which the pilots failed miserably to do in this example).
PS: From what I know, the only things which aren't automated in-flight are landing and maybe the route as they're complex tasks to automate with logical computing.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
@@esyt1232 i mean if you're that broke then sure that might be a complexity but other then that all it takes is effort.
@@rafa_br34 actually, the automation is what makes it more complex nowadays. Pilots have to thoroughly study all the systems to exactly understand what's going on, properly monitor the automation and correct it if necessary. Landings can be performed automatically, the take-offs not (yet). Further challenges are rising due to new implementation of navigation techniques and an increase in traffic volume. Of course, pilots still need to be able to hand-fly their aircraft, though, this part is quite reduced.
Decades ago I had to have a spinal cord stimulator battery surgically replaced. The surgeon asked me if his eight year old son could be present. I said "sure." The little boy entertained me, told me stupid jokes. But he never held a scalpel. Big difference.
That's really cool!
Why would a surgeon even think of having a kid in a surgical environment? That seems creepy to me, not a bring my kid to surgery day.
Maybe kid's dream is to become surgeon himself, it's not like it's something brutal and messy
Imagine the embarrassment, fear, guilt the dad felt in those last minutes…. I know he was so embarrassed knowing the plane was going down for his carelessness
I feel more for the kids who had no control over that, they got invited to do something by their dad trusting him and then their fear and guilt as the last thing they are hearing is their dad screaming "get away" :/ breaks my heart.
@@MizzzFizzz that’s horrible
embarrassed? In that situation? wow....with everything happening so fast that`s the last thing that would`ve went through my head I`d think the same goes for the pilot.
Doesn't matter now does it. The dad was responsible for all these deaths. How proud is he now?
@iSell Crack I think shame would definitely be the better word here and not "embarrassed
Couldn’t imagine how it must of been to be a passenger on this flight while all of this is happening!
I got the ride of a lifetime landing in a hurricane, that was mind bending this ride must have like riding in a drink mixer. Very sad but it's really inconceivable that three pilots though it was ok to put children in front of the controls with passengers on board
Confusing af, I reckon.
"Of you ever been on a flight?"
That's what you sound like
Must HAVE*
Especially if the cockpit door was open and you could look up there and see a kid in the pilot's seat.
I'm sure some drinks got spilled and the flight staff got yelled at
You get desensitized to how dangerous things are when you do them regularly. The army teaches that complacency kills, this is a perfect example of that. This is just like doing your makeup driving down the highway or smoking a cigarette around flammable materials, you get away with it enough times that it takes an accident to remind you how stupid your actions are. Unfortunately sometimes people die learning that lesson, and it's easy to play Monday morning quarterback looking back at the events.
They teach this at safety talks in construction ffs, and it's absolutely true.
Well said
Well thats true. But its also true that you were just in a dangerous situation. I ride a moto. Every time i get on that thing its a RISK. I will only add to the risk having jumped on it. Did i ask to get hit? No but what i do is risky as a baseline. Am i desensitized? Maybe a little. Sometimes i catch myself and rechecking my habits. I might die on that thing. Its a risk i take. The same can be said for anyone doing anything that has risk. The more you do it the more comfortable you are with it. But that does not take away the fact that you are IN a risky situation. No amount of skill can prevent certain things from happening which is why its considered risky.
Yep, thats why being paranoid is a bleesing and a curse. You will always be alert and cautious but you will end up looking crazy for some.
Dont think anyone could’ve said it better.. bless you, brother
This has to be one of the most frustrating crashes ever. The sheer incompetence is mind boggling.
At least elder got outta getting grounded
He got grounded alright
Those passengers, man. Can’t imagine the abrupt chaos they were thrown into.
Most of them probably died in their sleep. It was more or less instant.
@@MrJakeros Probably not because the amount of g force and the plane turning upside down
Yea they went from peacfull slumbers to the plane going buck wild. Yea talk about a rude awakening only to find your death RIGHT there in the seat next to you. And no one went sleeping. Everyone was wide awake for that.
@@MrJakeros being turned frigging upside down then weightless in a plane full of stuff might just be enough to wake me up....
@@Ukraineaissance2014 That's just my two cents. Take it however you wish. I'm not here to debate.
I admit I wuld be very heated if I lost someone I loved and found out it was because the piolet wanted their kid to try to fly the plane
Who wouldn't
Who the hell are you going to be mad at?
Yes, be mad at the stars and the clouds..... if that soothes you!
@@wbsc56 The organisation that allowed letting kids in the cockpit or to sit in the pilot's chair? The failure to properly train their pilots?
@@wbsc56 It is possible to be hateful of the dead y'know. Or you could just be pissed off at entitled parents who think their kids are exempt from rules. There's plenty of those kinds of people to be mad at.
If there's a category of " infamous plane crashes", then this should be in the top 3.
What would be number 1 and 2
@@stikfigz there is a lot to choose from so it's difficult to choose.
@@stikfigz 9/11 (all 3 as a unit) and Eastern Airlines 401(which is, in fact, even dumber)
No it shouldn't. Just 9-11 and Tenerife have already taken 3+ spots
Ethiopian airlines 961 has to be there. Ffs they wanted to go to Australia, with fuel just to reach Cote D'Ivoire.
Others are the 2 Malaysian airlines, MH17 and MH370.
Imagine dying because the pilot’s kid flying the plane
💀
Everyone will die, sooner or later. What is the problem to be on a plane?
I would haunt the hell out of that family.
@@ThePurpleMark for generation and generation
RIP
Worst father's decision ever.
At least they self selected out of the gene pool
That is so sad. These kids were just having fun, and then their dying thoughts were probably about how they thought it was their fault that they were going to die.
Welp it kinda was. This whole family murder a bunch of innocent people.
as a russian myself… this is heartbreaking. my mom told me that when the actual reason of the crash was revealed the whole country was in shock. shame on our government and on the pilots. may the passengers’ souls be blessed.
покойтесь с миром. 💔
с миром
Not the pilots fault, I blame elder. He alone bears this burden. He should have landed the plane
При чем тут говэрмет?
Ukraine ❤️
Shame on government, lol? Aeroflot is a private company.
The most astonishing part to me is Pliskarev yelling to turn the plane to the RIGHT over and over again. I mean when he was questioned, he said “Don’t you see or what?” I know these situations are very chaotic and pilots can lose their bearings in certain situations, but this was ridiculous
Worse is you don’t turn right the same way as turning right in a car. You need some rudder for coordination. How was Eldar to know that?
Spacial disorientation is one hell of a drug
dude should’ve never been flying an aircraft in the first place you could see when the first signs of trouble weirdo. He was confused as fuck he wasn’t asking his kid rhetorically what was going on he was literally asking the kid like he expected him to have an answer as if the kid is supposed to know, what the hell is going on it’s disturbing the lack of training and capabilities. Some of these smaller airlines pilots have not to mention just the epically poor judgment involved in letting the child into the cockpit in the first place I mean it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that that is, an extremely bad idea that would be like me bringing my kids into the operating room when I’m performing a surgery and letting them perform tasks in the surgery no matter how simple like a take this surgical scissors and cut here or pull the suture or hand me that scalpel I mean it doesn’t matter if it’s a task they’re capable of doing or not it’s not something you do and somebody can say that flying a plane and surgery or two different things and that’s true but it’s no different the concept and the idea is no different. It’s still an incredibly stupid piss, poor unprofessional decision, and in this case, many people lost their lives because of it, no fault of their own and completely outside their control and that’s fucked up and considering that it was Russia they probably were not even awarded any kind of damages
@@jordanalandry1866I don’t see the harm, kids use skizzors in first grades
@@jordanalandry1866have you ever heard 9/11?
Such an awful accident. Imagine being a passenger and going through this. Also, imagine being the wife of the pilot. You've lost your children because your husband was an idiot.
I wonder if the wife/mother got any negative reactions from people
This brings human error to whole new level. I couldn't even imagine things like this would ever happen. Rip
yeah, if this pilot would have survived, he should have gotten a life sentence minimum!
I can’t even begin to imagine those poor passengers.
I understand wanting to show your kids where and how you work and for what all the dials and buttons are. But not while they’re in mid air with 75 other people on board.
This has got to be one of the most preventable accidents i’ve ever heard of.
it would even be one thing I realized it’s against professional procedures and policies, but it’s one thing to let your kids come up to the cockpit and watch you stand behind you and look out through the windshield whatever you know that’s one thing but you actually put the kid in the pilot seat and have them fucking with controls is completely just on another level
Planes WANT to fly straight and level. Without any input, a plane will typically return itself to straight and level flight by itself. You have to REALLY boner it up to cause something like this.
Yup. I’ve been told if something’s going wrong, let go or the yoke and set your watch. Not literally set your watch, but that just means let go and give it a few seconds to right itself before you do anything that’ll be beyond recovery because planes are designed to fly straight and level, and literally WANT to.
The irony is if they let the auto-pilot take over, the plane would've corrected itself and they would've survived.
The thing is, Eldar partially turned off the autopilot by pushing on the yoke hard and long enough. A310 only gave a visual indocation of that, which the pilots didn't notice. The ailerons were in manual control and since they are responsible for the bank, I doubt doing nothing from that point forward would have prevented the crash
@@rilmar2137 pretty sure they tested this in a flight simulator and it would have prevented a crash
When the other pilot is out of his seat then you're the pilot flying. I fail to understand why Piskarev wasn't monitoring the situation closely, especially as non-standard maneuvers were performed. By the time things started to go south he had totally lost his situational awareness, he didn't even understand which way the plane was turning...
@@Operngeist1 flight sims dont mean shit.
@Splitloop Gaming there is a reason pilots use flight Sim before actually flying a plane...
Completely avoidable, shocking tbh. The pilots were totally irresponsible. As bad as it gets. RIP to all the victims.
The moment I heard the children should fly the plane I cringed so hard.
There was actually a reddit story once where a passenger broke into the cockpit so her kid could fly the plane. Received a serving tray to the back of her head because she had assaulted the stewardess. The kid never even left its seat.
That's the way it should be!
"A reddit story"
As if that means anything
You trust everything you read of reddit? Lol
Yes because we believe things we read on reddit
Somebody, go get the serving tray out.
I've heard about this story from different sources, and you do a great job of bringing the events from the black box come to life. It is hard to get a great perspective on what exactly is going on from the original black box recording. I mean, you can tell it was in banks and rolls that a large passenger plane typically wouldn't be in, but the rate of descent is hard to gather from the original recording.
You get right to the point in your presentations and keep to important facts to simplify the often complex chain of events that cause accidents like this to happen.
Keep up the great work. It reminds me of those old disaster episodes of Modern Marvels on History Channel before it went to shit with all the reality television and Ancient Aliens crap. So it is much appreciated.
Thanks man
I remember watching a documentary about this disaster and when the investigators was investigating the crash they couldn't believe that a pilot could be so unprofessional then they have his daughter flying a plane.
Or his son.
Damn imagine being in control of a full size passenger plane as a 15 year old
I wish I couldn't believe that they were so sexist to have more of a problem with his daughter flying the plane than his son crashing it. But that is not the world we live in.
@@degenetron7590 Different era, different world (Russia, in certain ways, works as a completely different culture to Europe and America). Sometimes I guess they just didn't put much of a value on life. Otherwise, you can't really explain Stalingrad and giving a rifle to your troops but only one per 2 soldiers. And go, retake the city!. Sheesh.
@@faenethlorhalien plus when their soldiers returned from being POW they were sent to the gulag
Kind of messed up how some people still seem to blame Eldar at all. He really did nothing wrong, the responsibility is almost completely on his father and the co-pilot, and to a much lesser extent the lack of proper autopilot disengagement notification for that plane. Imagine your father yelling at you to get out of the way as you're being held in place by insane g-forces in the pilot seat of a commercial airliner crashing to the ground. Love to all the victims of this tragedy and their families.
Shouldn't have tried to fly the plane
He moved the control yoke, trying to turn it to the right. He was a catalyst that contributed to this accident. The ultimate responsibility lies with the Captain though.
@@kevinmalone3210FACTS
HAD ELDAR JUST GAVE UP THE CONTROLL AND LET THE FIRST OFFICER DO
Even the Autopilot was confused about what was going on.
Dang, that is so ice cold!!
I heard the autopilot disconnect so many times
So very sad for all the innocent lives taken for such a careless thrill for one's family members. The children were not at fault and those last moments must have been terrifying.
I cant imagine the fear from all those people when the plane went upside down and before crashing, must have been horrible
I've seen tons of air disaster videos from different channels, this is maybe the 4th or 5th in-depth video I watch on this specific incident and it still shocks me like the first time I learned of it. One of the saddest ones to me because of the reason for the crash, and how everyone must have felt, especially Eldar, who surely felt immense guilt in his final moments despite the pilots being the ones who should have never allowed him at the controls in the first place.
I don’t know if he would have had time to feel guilt when in a panic like that.
Eldar should’ve never touched anything in the cockpit. Better yet… the pilots should’ve never left the pilots chair.
Common sense was a trait this family didn’t have.
The kid should have felt some guilt imo, his dad even more so of course
Wow! The pilots made such a bad decision and paid the ultimate price. Can’t imagine they thought it was okay to take such a careless risk with people’s lives. This is absolutely disgusting.
RIP
To me the saddest thing is that the children probably suspected that the plane going down was their fault, and died thinking that.
"Eldar go away! go away!"
"I am literally glued in place by physics"
I'm an avgeek and I've seen documentaries about many, many aviation accidents. Russian pilots (largely Aeroflot) have a pretty bad track record all in all, but this one is among the most bizarre air crashes in history - and among the most preventable ones, too.
it would’ve saved me significant countless thousands of dollars to fly with smaller airlines over the years in my transcontinental flying habits, but I never did the reason being safety not only is maintenance of their aircraft, known to be extremely poor with a lot of those airlines, but they also have very poor pilot training and safety records as well and catastrophic crashes, failures, mechanical failures, and things like bombings and hijackings those are possible and they have happened but by and large the majority of crashes are a result of pilot error or poor aircraft maintenance so I feel like you get what you pay for and that’s in a nutshell exactly why I would never use one of these smaller airlines I mean summer known to be worse than others but across the board they all scored pretty badly and there’s a reason why their fares and that’s in a nutshell exactly why I would never use one of these smaller airlines I mean summer known to be worse than others but across the board they all scored pretty badly and there’s a reason why their fares are are so much cheaper. You know they have to cut corners somewhere and to me I guess I place a lot of value on my own life and want to try to mitigate any eliminate any potential risks when flying.
Aeroflot is the Ryanair of Eastern Europe.
@@labellenoiseuse5007no, aeroflot actually has a good business class and good long haul flights compared to ryanair
"Don't run there, or they'll kick us out of work." Timely advice, right there.
The truly sad thing is all they had to do was let the steering controls go and the plane would have righted itself automatically but they where not given this information, Amazing.
Backstory: he told everyone on the plane, in the terminal and over the radio that he was going to let his kid fly the plane and nobody did nothing.
I would have stormed the cabin at that point
Same!
Wth do you expect the passengers to do? You can't just walk into the cabin and tell the pilots what to do
there is a reason why! for Russians negligence, not following a protocol, partially due to corruption is NORMAL!!! so it was acceptable for everyone on all levels. I think some things changed a bit after this international scandal but not much and note how even the goverment knew about it and tried to cover it up!? why? because for them it's socially acceptable, you important person, high in the hierarchy, then anything is ok for you.
@@gopro369 And in true Russian fashion, they tried to cover it up and hide evidence. They had a history of doing that even at the expense of people's lives. Kursk, Chernobyl, Russian astronaut, rocket explosions, etc
So we're all in agreement...no kids in the cockpit during flight, right?
I've watched a couple of documentary videos about this disaster now. And every time I come away with the same question: What was the cabin crew _thinking?!_
I think the answer is very obvious. They weren't.
The cabin crew refers to people like flight, attendants, not the actual flight crew. I’m sure, just like the passengers by the time they realized some thing was seriously the matter the plane was already subjected to such a strong G force that they would’ve been essentially paralyzed in their seats, I can’t imagine what they would be thinking. I mean holy fuck what the fuck praying probably as far as I’ve seen. There was no announcement given to the passengers so they would be left to assume the worst. You know it was dark outside. I’m sure they could see a little bit of the terrain, but moving at those speeds, and under those G forces there probably wasn’t much time to fully appreciate the situation
@Jordana Landry yeah sorry, that's my mixup. Cabin crew probably knew nothing.
The _flight crew_ on the other hand... what the fuck?!
Well the USSR had only fallen 3 years ago, maybe their brains hadn’t fully recovered from the malnutrition yet
They weren't!
I remember watching a documentary about this disaster and when the investigators were investigating the crash, they couldn't believe that a pilot could be so unprofessional that they have their son flying a plane.
The most infuriating thing about this crash is how ridiculously preventable it was. What in the hell was that pilot thinking by not only allowing his kid in the cockpit, but putting him at the controls? Everybody onboard died needlessly because of his stupidity.
If I ever feel like I fucked up at my job, I’m going to remember this video
I’ve seen this covered on other channels. The poor boy being yelled at by his dad moments before dying. 😢
its cause the plane was literally nose diving.
@@handlemyd- right. But who's fault was that?
@RaniaIsAwesome did your parents have any children that lived?
I can't imagine doing that with not only with your family on board but with passengers on board. I'm sure if he let the passengers know that he was going to let his kids fly for a few minutes then nobody would've gotten on that plane. I can't imagine what they went through
It's almost comical how poorly these pilots performed under pressure. Got the aircraft mostly under control twice, before screwing up a third time? COME ON!
Son: "Dad, the plane is turning by itself"
Dad: "Can't you see I'm busy talking to your sister?"
*Some seconds later*
Dad: "Is the plane turning by itself?"
Son: "Yes"
Dad: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
I feel so bad for Eldar, it's not his fault his dad's a dummy
Its his fault aswell. He was 15 years old. If im in that situation, im defenetly not accepting it.
@@FerencKraniczhe’s still a kid. It’s a reason they need parental consent for a lot. Even if it was his idea to drive, dad should have said no because he’s the adult 💀
@@sabrinamonroe He's 15 it's old enough to not be an idiot. He paid the price of his own actions
The kid kept pushing the controls around as far as they would go even after his dad turned around and was talking to his daughter who was bugging him with questions, that’s the part that gets me
@@hustledude14:17 if Eldar gave up controll and handed into the first officer in the right seat nothing would ever happened
That's absolutely terrifying.. This one had me shivering in fear and dread.
I don't believe you. And if you ARE being g honest, seek immediate medical help
@@Vaginaninjado you not know what a metaphor is?💀💀
2:19 _"Soap trusted you. I thought I could too. So why, in the bloody hell, does Makarov know you?!"_
With the 'No Russian' scene in the plane the massacre could've happened after they landed ☠️☠️☠️
Finally after scrolling for so long someone who made a Call of Duty joke
dont blame the childrens, blame the adults
Agreed. If anything, Eldar was the only one who noticed something even going wrong in the first place.
Second thought,blame the bad kids.
Children is not an excuse to be an idiot
@@Cor43lHad Eldar just gave up controll and let the first officer do his job
So in a quick summary, the pilots got too confident and try to save everyone and killed everyone in turn, because if they would’ve let go of the controls at any moment, the auto pilot would’ve saved them
yeah, and we’ve seen that time and time again with these really poorly trained pilots that fly into a panic the second they get a stall warning or some thing you know, and aerodynamic style is very easy to recover from and yet they would do the exact opposite of what you should do there’s been countless cases of that happening and that causing the aircraft to obviously lose lift and basically fall right out of the sky because they’re not maintaining enough speed and they let the plane nose up too far but whether manual or auto pilot it should’ve been easily noticed and easily compensated for and corrected before anyone really even realized anything there was obviously too many cooks in the kitchen. Nobody was paying attention, and nobody knew what the hell they were doing. Least of all those poor kids who probably fell to their death feeling responsible in someway when truly, it was just the epically poor judgment of their father and the other pilots, that caused everybody their lives that day, it’s really kind of infuriating to think about
Well no because the auto pilot was disengaged for turning. Jr berger to level it out.
When "bring your kids to work day" goes wrong
That was the title of another video I watched on this.
😂
Can you imagine being the pilot's wife and mother of the two kids? Holding funerals and your whole (epically stupid) family being blamed for slaughtering the entire plane's passengers and crew?
I wouldnt call the children stupid. Children dont know better and mostly if an adult say something is okay, then its okay :/.
It's the adults fault for letting them inside the cockpit without anyone inside objecting it is a bad Idea. What do you expect a kid would do when piloting a plane? Of course, it'll crash. But, if the adults have 3 or more braincells and didn't pull this stunt with their kids, this could've never happen.
Yikes...
The daughter indeed sensed the danger and kind of "refuse" to play further but the stupidity of the father & son were completely off the chart
@sueykwan2455 the little girl prolly got bored. She sat down for like 5 minutes and "piloted" so I highly doubt she sensed danger.
The older wire frame visualization looks a lot more spooky. Also, you have to keep in mind that outside the cockpit, the surrounding would have been pitch black, so the passengers and even the piolets were just thrown around with no visual indicators. They just had to rely on instruments. What an awful tragedy. Great sim view though.
Can't imagine what the mother/wife of the pilot feel about this
@@gopro369 wow and the reward for the most xenophobic and apathetic reward goes to you.
@Go Pro And that kind of mentality makes you just as rotten as "they" are. It's always the rotten ones calling everyone else rotten.
man they almost pulled it off, so sad 😭
they went up a little TOO hard when they were slightly recovering
"Let the kid drive" always ends in tears.
Imagine killing an entire plane of passengers to prove to your kids that you’re cool
What’s really f’d up and sad is that Kudrinsky was clearly a skilled airman… getting a passenger aircraft out of a flat spin is nearly impossible, and he did it albeit too late. Goes to show what talent means without forethought. RIP to all.
he clearly was not a skilled airman, they appear to have made nearly zero of the correct adjustments in flight. Not to mention it doesnt look like they ever entered a flat spin.
Lol, talent? I think you mean skill, of which he was clearly lacking
Pete Mitchell was later cleared of any wrongdoing in gooses death.
That pilot killed himself, his kids, his co-workers--and everyone on the plane. Disgusting.
This video is perfectly produced!
The effects are enough to enhance the experience, yet not obnoxious. The visual details are spot-on! Excellent work! A+ 👍
I've heard about this on the other channels and honestly every time I hear about this accident. I'm always wondering what the hell was the captain thinking? Allowing his children to enter the cockpit (which was against aviation regulations.) This is something that I will never understand. This is why I don't blame Eldar for the crash. I blame his father the captain and the other pilot. This was pure negligence from the very beginning. I mean, I can understand that he was proud of his profession but to put his children in the cockpit Knowing that something could possibly go very wrong and it did go very wrong that's something that I don't understand
I don't blame the child either. That was all on his father and the other adult in the cockpit for allowing it.
Kids were often allowed into the cockpit before 9/11. I did it a couple of times in the 90s. It was a normal thing.
I can't imagine the insane ride those passengers got before the end
I cant believe i had close enough experience like the kids in this flight of being allowed into the cockpit of a flying plane.
Back in the late 90s, my dad was the captain to a flight that my family rode to visit family. After we were in cruising altitude and the fasten seatbelt was off, my dad invited me and my younger sister to visit the cockpit. We were curious but stood in place upon entering as we greet his colleagues and we were shy and didnt do anything and quietly ushered back to our seats. It was after our plane landed that we were allowed to sit in the seats but not touch the controls and have our pictures taken.
Afterwards, we did had more flights like that but they were after 9/11 so we were never allowed to enter the cabin even as kids of the pilot.
Basically you didn't have the same experience!
It was normal for kids to stand and watch, but never to get in the seat and be handed the yoke. What you and I had was NOTHING like what these kids had.
Did you also turn to right and dived into the ground?
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandriaif I remember rightly we were allowed to sit in the co pilots seat when we were kids. We didn’t touch any controls but it was fairly normal before 9/11c, after 9/11 the world became a place of hysteria and fear.
I remember when I first heard of this and it simply BLEW my mind. Why even chance something like this happening?
I don't get it. How many times do they recover from spins and then intentionally put it back into a spin again? And why? Panic?
this is literally like a comedy sketch. everyone freaking out and running around screaming while the kid plummets the plane into the ground. everyone yelling to fix the plane or whatever....meanwhile none of the trained pilots simply take the wheel to fix it
Wow, what a sad and preventable tragedy!
The kid was something special. Single handedly killed everyone without trying
That family got more kill counts than serial killers
@@notsure4648 are you talking about the kid or his father? Because I’m pretty sure the kid wasn’t a pilot
He was just that. A kid. It's not his fault. Poor guy probably spent his last minutes terrified and feeling like shit for the outcome of a situation he wasn't prepared to handle.
I like how the report specifically mentioned the pilot brought in his son. The kid was innocent and just wanted to see what his dad did but the pilot should have known there would be consequences. If he wanted to show his kids, he should have showed them while they were grounded, not in air. Reckless pilot
I was a little confused , but then you stated the date.
The 90s in Russia were such a mess , im not suprised a child was let into the cockpit and allowed the fly the aircraft. The Country was in shambles.
But.. it's better now, right? Right?
I’m really glad you had the arrow in the thumbnail or I would’ve had no idea what I was looking at. Super helpful.
arrows are still a big hit for thumbnails for some reason.
I heard thet the rest of the crew didn 't dare complaining about the kids in the cockpit because the Captain was very arrogant, self-righteous and a show off!
3:07, omg that segue was gold haha thanks for keeping your promise btw :)
They were lucky they were just 1 mile from the nearest road. This was, afterall, Siberia.
Lucky because they all die???
You need to cover the Aeroflot disaster where the captain was drunk at the controls next!
Wow, this is beyond shocking. All those families who lost loved ones, and all those rescuers who had to find bodies. The pilot wanting his kids to experience what he does, is so irresponsible. Reminds me of the captain of the ship which tipped over several years back, wanting to show off his ship and came into shore too far. I cannot comprehend what these families thought when they found out there loved ones died because kids were flying it, and then to have no justice and a pathetic compensation paid to them. My heart goes out to them
I remember watching this in Air disasters and was like wowow !! This was crazy and sad !!!
Sorry but can't believe that anyone would let children in a cockpit, even if it's their children. Feel for all the people who lost their lives because of the kids. Heartbreaking
Not because of the kids, but because of entitled parents. They exist everywhere, and they cause problems wherever they go. The kids were just doing what their parent told them was ok to do, it's not their fault their father was an entitled idiot who felt risking the lives of innocent passengers was fine if it meant giving his kids an experience.
@@Milkikomori it's both really but you're right. I couldn't have kids so don't understand the situation between parents & children. Thanks for pointing it out. Appreciate it.
Wait. Why is your first instinct to blame the children? 👀 the fully grown adult who's piloting the plane full of passengers made the decision to let them do it. Why wasn't he the first one you'd assign the blame to? Kids frontal lobes aren't even fully developed yet, they can't calculate risk like an adult, don't have the same impulse controls nor did they understand the risk. Like the blame is 100% on the grown ass adults in the cockpit who broke protocol. But yeah, let's put the blame on literal children. That makes perfect sense.
@@aniassantiago6445 your right but I couldn't have children so I guess just don't understand why adults would be so stupid as to risk the lives of the people on board, but they definitely did & it also cost them their lives as well. Rip to everyone & sorry about blaming the kids, it's both.
@Deborrah Shiffer you don't have to have kids to see the flaws in blaming kids for adult mistakes tho. You can't expect kids to make adult decisions, that's the adults role to be responsible and follow protocol.
6:28 - Kudrinsky to his daughter: "Don't run there, or they'll kick us out of work."
Riiight. Because letting a child run in the aisle would be such a foolish, risky thing to do.
Inertia is a helluva thing.
In the movie "Flight" this is why Denzel Washington prohibits his co-pilot from removing his harness. If G-Forces increase too much while your out of the seat, you're not getting back into it or anywhere near the controls.
Worst Bring-Your-Kid-to-Work Day ever
If this was a television episode, it'd be jumping the shark. I can't comprehend being skilled enough to recover a plane like that so many times in a row and yet be so incompetent that you put it in that situation that many times in a row.
Kids not only in the cabin but also at the controls of not a STOL but a passenger jet?? WTF!!
This video makes me so unbelievably angry the fact that 75 people lost their lives because you had to let your children into the cockpit for absolutely no reason
I've seen a few other airplane accident videos where this same thing happened, only no kid in the cockpit. The pilot bumped the control column or was pulling on the control column when they turned on the auto pilot, so the autopilot never fully engaged. One I watched recently, the plane started banking right but they thought the autopilot was banking the plane intentionally because they had changed the heading to the right. It wasn't until they were banking around 45 degrees did they notice something was wrong. Then the pilot panicked and they crashed.
Sriwijaya 182?
@@rilmar2137 Yes I think that is the most recent one. Once the pilot realized something was wrong, instead of holding the controls left to recover, he kept moving the controls left right left right left right in a panic.
Unreal. The stupidity of that father was just unreal.
I remember going up to the cockpit many times as a child. I remember one time up in the cockpit there was a sunrise, and even being young I still comprehended how beautiful it was
me too.
Yeah, I mean they used to let kids up there to get a little pilot swing and say hi to the pilot and just look out through the windshield but they were putting us behind the controls and letting us push buttons and levers and completely man the plane either you know those are two very different things
The way I was genuinely holding on to everything near me gripping the entire time watching this video. Goddamn.
Thats not a moment of recklessness. What kind of insane pilot lets a kid with no experience pilot a commercial airplane?!
RIP
To the passengers and crew of Aeroflot Flight 593
Another great upload…thanks! 🫡