SAN FRANCISCO --
Investigators are examining the cockpit interaction of two Asiana Airlines
pilots who had taken on new roles before the crash of Flight 214 -- one of whom
had seldom flown a Boeing 777 and an instructor who was on his first training
flight.
There were four pilots on board but the National
Transportation Safety Board is focusing on the working relationship between Lee
Gang-kuk, who was landing the big jet for his first time at San Francisco
International Airport, and Lee Jeong-Min, who was training him.
While the two men had years of aviation experience, this
mission involved unfamiliar duties, and it was the first time they had flown
together.
The flight came to a tragic end when the airliner, which
came in too low and too slow, crash-landed on Saturday, killing two passengers
and injuring many others as it skittered and spun 100 feet.
The pilots were assigned to work together through a tightly
regulated system developed after several deadly crashes in the 1980s were
blamed in part on inexperience in the cockpit, NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman
said Wednesday.
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