Isn’t that the flight where the pilot allowed his kid to fly the plane?
[Isn’t that the flight where the pilot allowed his kid to fly the plane?]
No, that was a Russian plane. As I recall, the kid was about 15 years old. Rolled the a/c into an uncontrollable dive. I’ll have to watch the video again.
Aeroflot Flight 593
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kPAWVI5UA
In Air France 447, since the pitot tubes had iced over, the auto-pilot was unable to determine the speed of the aircraft. It therefore disconnected, as it should have, alerting the pilots to take manual control.
At their FL it was a narrow corridor, speed-wise, to fly properly. Some say about 10 mph. While some procedures did call for a slight nose-up, it should have been obvious by the altimeter that they had stalled, as predictable. The airflow was no longer keeping the plane at stable altitude. They needed to descend to lower altitude where the thicker air would allow the wings to fly again (to a controllable degree). Apparently one pilot did not know what the other one was doing. By the time they realized it, it was too late. They were too low and the sink rate was too high. One of them expressed a curse word just before they pancaked into the water.
That’s not a comprehensive overview, just a quick summary.
For accuracy, that should be “Russian airline”, but the a/c was an Airbus A310.
Rereading again. They did in fact halt the dive. But unfortunately over-corrected and went near-vertical, which then resulted in the final stall (Aeroflot subsidiary airline - Airbus A310 had been delivered new, on lease).
It was the relief pilot’s children. Making a total of 5 occupants on the flight deck at one time.
They were scheduled to fly to Kai Tak Airport. Which has since been closed. (20 years ago)