The chilling final words of a pilot who let his children fly a plane moments before it crashed, killing everyone on board, have been revealed.
On 23 March, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 was on route to Moscow from Honk Kong.
Captain Andrew Viktorovich Danilov, with first officer Igor Vasilyevich Piskaryov and relief captain Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky were flying.
Just before 1am, Kudrinsky decided to allow his kids into the cockpit to see dad work.
This move was of course, against regulations, but this didn’t stop Yana, 13, and Eldar, 15.
The plane was on autopilot when the two teens were allowed in to ‘fly’.
Eldar was on the pilot seat when things went very wrong, killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members.
The 15-year-old somehow managed to switch the settings from autopilot to manual.
All three of the pilots were not used to the non-soviet plane and failed to notice the change, before it was too late.
When they did notice that the plane was going in the wrong direction, they sent the kids back to their seats and Kudrinsky ordered the co-pilot to take over while he moved his son.
The voice recording was later released to the public and the father could be heard saying: “Eldar, get away. Go to the back, go to the back Eldar! You see the danger don’t you. Go away, go away Eldar! Go away, go away. I tell you to go away!”
The three pilots then over-corrected to try and avoid a crash, but the aircraft was below the minimum altitude and sadly crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain range in the Kemerovo Oblast region of southern Russia at around 160mph.
The plane was destroyed, killing everyone on board.