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Unqualified Passenger Allegedly Took Control Of A Passenger Flight Over Russia
According to reports coming out of Russia an unqualified young woman was allowed to fly a passenger plane on a scheduled flight in Siberia. If you have had safety doubts about flying with a Russian airline your reservations could be right following a video of a woman passenger flying a passenger plane on a regularly scheduled flight. Extraordinary footage has appeared of the woman sitting in the co-pilots seat aboard an IrAero flight over Siberia. The footage of a young woman in her 20s flying… (siberiantimes.com) Más...curiously, her sweater is off in one of the pics...Pilot's side piece, perhaps? Either An-24 'Coke' or An-26 'Curl' (last -24 was built 1979, last -26 1986...probably very high time ships)
She looked qualified to me.
The article reports that the airline was found in 1999. I wonder who lost it.
Reminds me a 1994 Aeroflot A310 accident in which a young child took control of the plane. I think it may have been the captain’s child.
It was the Captains Son that caused the crash. Put to much pressure on the control column which caused the autopilot to shut off the horizontal pitch of the aircraft which in turn caused the plane to roll to much and crash. Terrible accident.
No babushka here .