Aeroflot Flight 593 · Mezhdurechensky District
On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 (Mezhdurechensky District). 75 people died.
- Date
- March 23, 1994
- Place
- Mezhdurechensky District
- Operator
- Aeroflot
- Killed
- 75
- Position
- 53.301°N, 88.150°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q381461
From Wikipedia
Aeroflot Flight 593 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. On 23 March 1994, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A310 flown by Aeroflot, crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
The cockpit voice recorder revealed the presence of the relief captain's teenaged children in the cockpit at the time of the accident. While seated at the controls, the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly partially disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons. The autopilot then disengaged completely, causing the aircraft to roll into a steep bank and a near-vertical dive. Despite managing to level the aircraft, the first officer over-corrected when pulling up, causing the plane to stall and enter into a spin; the pilots managed to level the A310 once more, but the plane had descended beyond a safe altitude to initiate a recovery and subsequently crashed into the mountain range.
Text from Wikipedia, “Aeroflot Flight 593”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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