Daily Archives: March 23, 2014

75 die in ‘Kid in the Cockpit’ plane crash 20 years ago this hour (Mar 23 1994)


Video: 'AeroFlot Crash Flight 593 Documentary - Kid In The Cockpit'

(Wednesday, March 23, 1994, 8:49 p.m. GMT)Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75 people on board. It turned out the teenage son of a pilot who was allowed to sit at the controls accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing the jetliner to plunge to the ground.