Investigators are sifting through the rubble and reviewing information from the “black box” following Saturdays crash of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport.
Surprisingly, only 2 people were killed when the tail of the Boeing 777 flight from South Korea was apparently too close to the runway, causing the flight to crash during landing. At least 180 people were rushed to area hospitals and treated for injuries. Amazingly, more than 100 people simply walked away unharmed.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman traveled to the scene and promised answers after reports that because the pilot was a trainee with only 43 hours experience with a 777, the crash was likely pilot error.
“There are a lot of systems to help support the pilots as they come into airports, especially busy commercial airports like this one in San Francisco,” Hersman said yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union.
“It’s also about the pilots’ recognition of the circumstances and what’s going on, and so for them to be able to assess what’s happening and make the right inputs to make sure they’re in a safe situation,” Hersman added. “That’s what we expect from pilots. We want to understand what happened in this situation.”
Forty three hours of training time?? I smell a bunch of lawsuits coming on this one.