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Originally Posted by ken0042
If it's the same one I recall, the pilot didn't think the kid could override the autopilot. Turns out a sharp yank on the control did shut it off. What is baffling about that one is they started giving instructions to the kid, instead of yanking him out of the seat.
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I don't think that's exactly how it went down
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While seated at the controls, the pilot's son had unknowingly disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons. The autopilot then disengaged completely causing the aircraft to roll into a steep bank and a near-vertical dive. Despite managing to level the aircraft, the first officer over-corrected when pulling up, causing the plane to stall and enter into a corkscrew dive; the pilots managed to level the aircraft off once more, but by then the plane had lost too much altitude to recover and crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range
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