Early Indicators Suggest Pilot Error Factor in Fatal Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 Crash (+videos)
Seconds before Boeing 777 crash, passengers knew they were too low
By Holly Yan and Greg Botelho. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was seconds away from landing when the passengers sensed something horribly amiss.
The plane was approaching San Francisco International Airport under a beautifully clear sky, but it was flying low. Dangerously low.
Benjamin Levy looked out the window from seat 30K and could see the water of the San Francisco Bay about 10 feet below.
“I don’t see any runway, I just see water,” Levy recalled.
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Fatal crash-landing not mechanical error – airline
By ONE News/ Reuters. Asiana Airlines does not believe the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 777 planes in San Francisco was caused by mechanical failure, although it refused to be drawn on whether the fault lay with pilot error.
Two people were killed and more than 70 injured when the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport.
“For now, we acknowledge that there were no problems caused by the 777-200 plane or (its) engines,” Yoon Young-doo, the president and CEO of the airline, told a media conference on Sunday at the company headquarters.
Asiana said the two people who died in the crash were female Chinese teenagers who had been seated at the back of the aircraft. Read more from this story HERE.
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Boeing 777 Records First Fatalities in Its 18 Year History
By Gillian Mohney. The Boeing 777, considered one of safest aircrafts in the sky, recorded the first fatalities since it was launched 18 years ago when the Asiana Airlines crashed at San Francisco Airport today.
“The triple-7 is one of the safest airplanes in use, it’s been a marvelous bird,” ABC News’ aviation analyst John Nance told ABC News Radio. “These airplanes are over the water, over the ocean all the time and Asiana has been running them many years very successfully.”
On Saturday an Asiana Airlines flight crash landed at San Francisco International Airport, catching fire, tearing off its tail and injuring at least 40.
The Boeing 777 — called the “Triple 7” within the industry — began flying in 1995. According to Boeing, the first Boeing 777 plane is still in service and has accumulated 5 million flights and accumulated more than 18 million flight hours. The plane that crashed today was seven years old. Read more from this story HERE.
