Best one for me was one of the Air Crash Ivestigation episodes. A Russian airliner was flying over Siberia to China. It was a new Airbus the airline had just got. The pilots children were onboard and he decided to let his son and daughter sit in the number 1 and 2 seats.
His son was playing with the yoke pretending to fly the plane and ended up actually controlling the plane, even though the pilot had put the autopilot one. The son got the plane into a huge climb then dive. After lots of effort the pilot managed to get into the seat but it was too late and the plane crashed in the Siberian wilderness killing all onboard.
Crash investigative found the kids bodies in the cockpit and figured they had been thrown into it by the crash. It was only later when they reviewed the cockpit voice recorders when they realised what had happened.
After a long investigation it turned out the Airbus autopilot could be deactivated by sharp turns on the yoke, something the pilots previous aircraft didn't do.
Sorry for the loss of life but never put kids in control of a passenger aircraft!
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03-12-2011, 06:50 PM
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