This incident sounds like a bad joke, except the consequences were not very funny. On March 23, 1994, the Captain of an Aeroflot Airbus A310-300 decided to allow his two children - eleven and sixteen years of age - to take turns "flying" the airplane. When his son accidently, disengaged the "autopilot", the massive airliner banked steeply and fell out of control. The copilot took over and almost saved the day. While he desesperately executed a 4.8-G pull-up, the aircraft impacted the earth, killing all 75 souls aboard.
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