Two Algerian airline crew were suspended after they let an orphan get inside the cockpit and let him make adjustments on the plane settings.

The 10-year-old boy apparently wants to be a pilot someday and as part of a charity initiative for TV they may have risked the lives of at least 80 passengers when they let him sit on the pilot’s chair during actual domestic flight for Air Algerie from Algiers to Setif.

In the video released by Algeria’s El Bilad TV, the boy was shown around the plane to help with pre-flight checks before he was taken to the cockpit and two pilots who have not been named yet were present in the scene. One was sitting next to him trying to assist. Then the video showed him adjusting what seems to be the power settings while the captain talks over the camera saying it was the actual thing he’s tweaking and not pretend then proceeded to praise him, “He was very disciplined, calm and attentive. I am sure he will make a good pilot.“

They found out Air Algerie Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A was registered under 7T-VUT.

The footage was released last July 26 and the 28th Algeria’s Directorate of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (DACM) have already responded by confirming the story and immediately suspending the two pilots for violating Algerian law.

A similar case in 1994 happened in Aeroflot Flight 593, flight from Moscow to Hong Kong, when they allowed the pilot’s teenage son inside the flight deck and he accidentally turned off autopilot killing all the people on board.

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