The March 23, 1994 tragedy of Aeroflot Flight 593, en route from Moscow to Hong Kong, has reemerged in various media outlets and on social media, three decades after the crash happened in Russian Siberia.
The 30-year-old catastrophic crash, which claimed the lives of all 75 passengers aboard, unfolded during the aircraft’s first international flight after pilot Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky permitted his children to enter the cockpit.
His 13-year-old daughter, Yana, and 15-year-old son, Eldar, took turns sitting in the pilot’s chair, where Eldar’s actions inadvertently disabled parts of the autopilot system, causing the plane to veer sharply. Despite Kudrinsky’s attempts to intervene, the aircraft entered a downward spiral.
‘Eldar, get away’
As the situation escalated, the pilot shouted at his son, urging him to vacate the controls and recognise the imminent danger. “Eldar, get away. Go to the back, go to the back Eldar! You see the danger don’t you? “Go away, go away Eldar! Go away, go away. I tell you to go away," Kudrinsky was quoted as saying by UK’s LADbible.
Amid the chaos, Kudrinsky struggled to regain control of the plane, but it was too late. “Get out now, all is normal. Pull up gently. Gently! Gently I say," he had said. The aircraft plummeted to the ground, crashing in the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain range of southern Russia at a speed of some 160mph.
After the crash, investigators retrieved the aircraft’s black box, which provided haunting insight into the final moments of Flight 593. The recording captured Kudrinsky’s frantic commands and the frantic attempt to stabilise the aircraft before its tragic descent. Despite the pilot’s efforts to reassure passengers, the flight ended in devastation just two minutes and six seconds after the onset of the crisis.
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