Winter Snowstorm Disrupts Travel in Greater New York Area

On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 was traveling from Moscow to Hong Kong when it suffered a catastrophic human error. Captain Yaroslav Kudrinsky invited his children, thirteen year old Yana and fifteen year old Eldar, into the cockpit of the Airbus A310. He allowed them to sit in the pilots seat and handle the control column while the aircraft was at its cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. The horror began when Eldar applied pressure to the controls for too long, which unknowingly disconnecte