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Old Apr 3, 2008 | 10:00 pm
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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
That can't be true. I learned on FT that ``odds of a kid falling into a "button" or something to that effect are almost nil.''
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