On the 23rd of March, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 was en route from Moscow to Hong Kong with 75 people on board. Before if could reach its destination, the aircraft appeared to malfunction, launching into a series of steep climbs and dives – the final one of which took the plane to an altitude so low that no recovery was possible. The Airbus A310 crashed into the ground, with the loss of every single person on board. A subsequent investigation would reveal that the crash was due entirely to a sequence of bad decisions, misunderstandings, and errors by the pilots of Flight 593.