Shocking 16-minute timeline of plane crash that killed 75 when pilot let his children fly the plane

A plane carrying 63 passengers and 12 members of staff never made it to its final destination after one of the pilots let his children into the plane’s flight deck.

On 23 March, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 left Moscow, Russia, as planned, and was headed for Hong Kong.

The aircraft was being flown by Andrew Viktorovich Danilov, who had a whopping 9,500 hours worth of in-flight experience. He was joined by first officer Igor Vasilyevich Piskaryov, who also had vast flying experience having racked up nearly 6,000 hours, as well as relief captain Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky.

With this in mind, you’d expect the flight to go very smoothly — but it descended into chaos when Kudrinsky let his teenage kids into the cockpit.

It was reportedly his daughter, aged 13, and 15-year-old son’s first international trip with their dad.