Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Pilot’s CHILDREN in Control! | Aeroflot Flight 593" video.

  1.  @deirdrejohnson9028  The critical difference is that you were small children - this crash partly occurred because a near-adult, ie a 16-year-old young man was in the hot seat, and he took some decisive actions on the controls that a small child simply wouldn't have done. Also, had he been a small child, his father would have promptly turfed him out of the seat immediately there was a problem, and taken charge of the controls. Instead the crisis was not addressed immediately because the 16-year-old remained in the driving seat during the first stage of the crisis, and assumed the pilots were telling him to take certain actions on the controls - when obviously he hadn't a clue what he was doing and should have been hauled out without delay! Disasters like this one are almost always the result of a number of unfortunate factors all coming into play together, creating the 'perfect storm' to tragedy. The age of the supposed 'child' playing pilot when the accident began to unfold is surely one factor. I suspect the children's father the Captain was a dominant character, whose weaker colleagues didn't feel able to challenge him. So the Captain knew he could bring his kids into the cockpit without any resistance - the fact he took several liberties beyond that by a/ letting the kids sit in his seat and b/ allowing them to action certain controls, supports my theory there was an unhealthy balance of power that over-favoured the Captain in that particular cockpit crew. An all-powerful, dominant Captain and weak first officer/engineer(s) is a dynamic that's been a recurrent contributing factor in air crashes. When there's a big discrepancy in status/perceived status between pilots, it can make for poor communication, poor problem-solving and ineffective time and control management. It's a total outrage that one man thought he had the right to play fast and loose with the lives of over 70 unwitting people, just so he could show off to his kids and make them feel special.
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  2. Exactly! It beggars belief his father didn't turf him out of the driving seat at the first sign of trouble, and take charge. If he had, it's possible there might have been time to avert disaster. The older 'child' was actually a young man of 16 which played a role in the disaster - as a young man he was actioning things on the controls a smaller child would not have done. And if he'd been a small child his father would presumably have taken him out of the driving seat immediately! But the final blame of course lies with that arrogant Captain, who thought he had the right to play fast and loose with over 70 lives, just to show off in front of his children and make them feel special. Unbelievable! And bloody terrifying that a commercial plane can go from normal flight to crashing into the ground in 3 minutes!
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  3. This particular air disaster has long enraged me. I cannot believe the arrogance of the Captain in playing fast and loose with everyone on board's lives, just so he could show off to his kids and make them feel special. It suggests to me he was one of those Captains who dominated his co-pilot and colleagues, so they didn't feel able to contradict or challenge him on anything. He not only brought his kids into the cockpit without caring what they thought, he went several steps further by putting both kids in the driving seat, AND allowing them to action certain movements at the controls. Unbelievable! It is surely telling that the little girl didn't cause any problems, but the 16-year-old boy did - and no wonder, he was a young man which meant he took dangerous actions on the controls that a small child would not, and critically once the plane was in trouble, he was likely too big to remove from the Captain's seat quickly, as he should have been. Instead, incredibly, his father let him stay in the hot seat, and the totally untrained teenager responded to instructions from the co pilot when it was a life-or-death crisis only for the professionals! You couldn't make it up. How terrifying to know a commercial plane can go from cruising with no problems to crashing into the ground within just 3 minutes. I know that will be on my mind every time I fly now, lol! Was this pilot named and shamed over the crash in the media? I guess he and his kids were dead along with everyone else, so maybe there was no appetite to blame him. But it clearly was ultimately his fault entirely for letting his kids play pilots. Had I lost a loved one on that flight I would be livid with him!
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