Plane Crash Documentary - What Happens When a 15-Year Old Pilots a Plane

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: April 15th, 2022

I've taken a liking to plane-crash documentaries lately as a means of passing the time. I thought that fans of my blog might like these kinds of documentaries as well for the educational value. Plane crashes do produce scores of missing people. However, people who go missing because of a plane crash are not missing under mysterious circumstances -- except where the cause of the plane crash is concerned. That's where plane-crash documentaries are connected to the topic of missing people.

These documentaries often include forensic analysis of the factors that cause any kind of malfunction. In general, no expenses are spared in these investigations, so they certainly bring a lot to light.

A YouTube account, known as "Wonder", has a good list of documentaries. One documentary titled "Disaster Of Aeroflot Flight 593 After Kid Disables Autopilot | Mayday | Wonder," tells the true story of a flight that went from Moscow bound for Hong Kong. The description of the 50-minute documentary is as follows:

"On 23 March 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 stalls and crashes while en route to Hong Kong, killing all 75 people on board. The pilot's 15-year-old son accidentally disabled the autopilot while in the captain's seat, causing the aircraft to bank heavily to the right, inducing the stall."

What happened is truly outrageous, as a perfectly operable airplane went from normal to devastated in what appeared to be only a matter of minutes. The YouTube video is embedded below. The matter has also been covered in other publications.