Originally Posted by FLowpayFO

The reason this Aeroflot A310 lost control is due to the ailerons being disengaged from the autopilot without any alarm sounding off once the yoke was held in a turn for more than 30 seconds. The aircraft wanted to maintain altitude which led it to loosing control, and to top it off once the captain regained his seat he kept fighting the stall system, all the crew had to have done in that situation to recover was to let go of the systems and the plane would have recovered itself. The crew were never trained nor were they made aware of this feature from Airbus or Aeroflot. It was a freak accident that happened and can't be blamed for the kid or the father for screwing up.

When I was 5 years old I once sat left seat in a DC-10 and got to push some buttons and even got to turn the heading selector to turn the plane, I still remember the Captain watching my every move and instructed me on how to do it. I think this controller made a safe fun decision to let his kid experience his fathers job, hell I think this man should be rewarded for actually involving his kid into his life and letting his kid understand what "Daddy has to go to work" really means...