Originally Posted by
wyseson
This thread reminded me of an episode of National Geographic's Air Emergency. In 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot's 15 year old son unknowingly activated an unusual feature of the Airbus A310's autopilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
Its ironic, I randomly watched that one day. I didn't know what it was but I thought it was sooooo cool the kid got to sit at the controls and I wished I got to do that as a kid.......then the plane crashed.
