Story 31

Story 31

On March 23 1994,the aircraft named Glinka, after the father of Russian music, was flying from Moscow to Hong Kong. There were sixty-three passengers with twelve crew members on board.

The aircraft crashed after a captain allowed his child to manipulate the controls of the plane.

The pilot's 11-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son were taking turns in the pilot's seat. While the boy was flying, the captain inadvertently disengaged the autopilot linkage to the ailerons and put the airliner in a bank of 90 degrees which caused the nose to drop sharply.

The co-pilot pulled back on the yoke to obtain level flight but the plane stalled. With his seat pulled all the way back, the co-pilot in the right hand seat could not properly control the aircraft. After several stalls and rapid pull-ups the plane went into a spiral descent. In the end, the co-pilot initiated a pull-up and nearly regained a stable flight path but the aircraft struck the ground in an almost level attitude killing all 75peopleaboard.