A cockpit voice recorder recovered from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 revealed the pilots attempted to abort the landing just 1.5 seconds before the jet crashed in San Francisco, killing two and injuring scores, federal investigators said Sunday.
National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman said at a Sunday news conference that the “black box” flight data recorders also showed there was an attempt to boost airspeed just before the aircraft impacted the sea wall and then slammed into the runway.
There was no evidence in the two recovered “black boxes” that the Boeing 777 was experiencing any problems before the crash on Saturday, Hersman said. The airline’s president said earlier that engine failure was likely not the cause of the deadly incident.
Asiana Airlines told NBC News that Lee Kang-kook, the pilot in charge of landing the plane, was in "transition training" to qualify to fly the Boeing 777, and it was his first attempt to fly into San Francisco while manning a 777. The airline said Kang-kook had flown different planes to that airport and was also being assisted by a more experienced pilot.
The flight to San Francisco was Kang-kook's ninth flying a 777 for a total of 43 hours, the airline said, and he has flown 9,700 hours in an Airbus A320. To qualify as a captain on the 777 requires 60 hours of flight time and 10 takeoffs and landings, the airline said.
08/07/13 Julie Yoon/F. Brinley Bruton/Matthew DeLuca/NBC News
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National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman said at a Sunday news conference that the “black box” flight data recorders also showed there was an attempt to boost airspeed just before the aircraft impacted the sea wall and then slammed into the runway.
There was no evidence in the two recovered “black boxes” that the Boeing 777 was experiencing any problems before the crash on Saturday, Hersman said. The airline’s president said earlier that engine failure was likely not the cause of the deadly incident.
Asiana Airlines told NBC News that Lee Kang-kook, the pilot in charge of landing the plane, was in "transition training" to qualify to fly the Boeing 777, and it was his first attempt to fly into San Francisco while manning a 777. The airline said Kang-kook had flown different planes to that airport and was also being assisted by a more experienced pilot.
The flight to San Francisco was Kang-kook's ninth flying a 777 for a total of 43 hours, the airline said, and he has flown 9,700 hours in an Airbus A320. To qualify as a captain on the 777 requires 60 hours of flight time and 10 takeoffs and landings, the airline said.
08/07/13 Julie Yoon/F. Brinley Bruton/Matthew DeLuca/NBC News
