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NTSB: Asiana Crash Looking Like Pilot Error

Top concern is slow speed during descent; still no sign of mechanical failure

(Newser) - The continuing investigation into the crash of an Asiana Airlines plane still hasn't spotted any mechanical trouble—meaning it's likely that pilot mistakes were to blame for the disaster, Sky News reports. National Transportation Safety Board chair Deborah Hersman offered new information about investigators' findings, with concern centered...

Asiana Pilot: Light Blinded Me at 500 Feet

Investigators unsure of its source

(Newser) - Clues to what may have caused the Asiana Airlines crash this weekend continue to emerge . The latest: The plane's pilot said that while flying at 500 feet, he was blinded by light, investigators say. "It was a temporary issue," says National Transportation Safety Board chair Deborah Hersman,...

Get Humans Out of the Cockpit
 Get Humans Out of the Cockpit 
OPINION
Jul 10, 2013 1:55 PM CDT

Get Humans Out of the Cockpit

Holman Jenkins thinks transportation ought to be automated

(Newser) - When a highly automated train crashed into a Quebec town last weekend, its conductor was not on board . Which raises a few questions, writes Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal . Why couldn't the train tell headquarters it had taken off? Why couldn't headquarters stop it from afar?...

Glacier Yields Victims of 1952 Plane Crash

POW/MIA team scouring Alaska site

(Newser) - More than 60 years after an Air Force plane slammed into Alaska's Mount Gannett, killing all 51 men aboard, a glacier miles away has begun giving up their remains. The military decided it would be near-impossible to recover the remains after the C-124 transport crashed in November 1952, but...

2 Flight Attendants Were Thrown From Plane, Survived

Crew says it was relying on automated cockpit equipment for speed

(Newser) - An amazing detail emerged today from the NTSB about the Asiana Airlines crash over the weekend: Two female flight attendants working in the rear of the plane weren't in their seats when it slammed into a seawall, and both were ejected upon impact, reports NBC News . "They were...

Pilot, Co-Pilot Didn't Talk About Unfolding SF Disaster

Cockpit voice recordings show no communication until seconds before crash

(Newser) - As Asiana Airlines Flight 214 descended toward San Francisco International Airport— too low , too slow , and with a pilot who had never landed a Boeing 777 at the tricky airport before—cockpit voice recordings show that pilot Lee Hang-kook and the co-pilot supervising him, who was more experienced, did not...

Seat Belts, Safety Changes Saved Lives in SF Crash

But many survivors suffered spinal injuries

(Newser) - If Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco had happened 25 years ago—or if passengers hadn't been wearing seat belts—the death toll would have been a lot higher than two out of the 307 passengers and crew, experts say. FAA mandates in the late 1980s forced manufacturers...

Pilots: SF Airport Was a Crash Waiting to Happen

Landing system had been down for weeks

(Newser) - "It was only a matter of time before something like this happened." That's one pilot's take on the headline-grabbing Asiana Airlines crash that left two people dead and 182 injured. The San Francisco International Airport was primed for disaster, pilots tell Der Spiegel , because a landing...

'Hero' Crew Member: SF Evacuation Began Badly

Slides inflated inside, pinning flight attendants down

(Newser) - A 20-year Asiana veteran is the first crew member of the doomed Flight 214 to speak, and according to Lee Yoon-hye, the evacuation did not begin smoothly. But first came the hard landing, which the cabin manager describes as "a bang ... afterward, there was another shock and the plane...

Pilot in SF Crash Was Still Training

It was his first attempt to land 777 at SFO

(Newser) - The pilot in Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco was a veteran with almost 10,000 hours of flying experience—but just 43 of them were in a Boeing 777 and the disaster that killed two people and injured 182 others was his first attempt to land that type...

10 Killed in Alaska Air Taxi Crash

Soldotna crash is state's deadliest in decades

(Newser) - All nine passengers and a pilot were killed yesterday in Alaska's worst aviation accident in more than 25 years. A de Havilland DHC-3 Otter air taxi crashed just after 11am at the airport in Soldotna, around 75 miles southwest of Anchorage, the AP reports. The aircraft was operated by...

Did Emergency Vehicle Kill SF Crash Victim?

Investigators suspect teen victim was run over

(Newser) - Investigators fear that one of the two teenage girls from China killed in Saturday's San Francisco plane crash may have survived the impact only to be fatally run over by a fire rig, reports Reuters . The 16-year-old did not suffer extensive burns but has injuries consistent with being run...

Flight Tried to Abort Landing Seconds Before Crash

But cockpit voice recorder reveals nothing was obviously wrong before that

(Newser) - Some news from the cockpit voice recorder of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 is finally in: the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San Francisco airport, says NTSB chief Deborah Hersman. There was also a call to increase...

2 Left Paralyzed in SF Plane Crash

19 still at SF General Hospital, 6 in critical condition

(Newser) - Two passengers have been left paralyzed in the San Francisco plane crash , which also killed two others—now identified as Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, both 16-year-old girls from China . Nineteen victims of the crash remain at San Francisco General Hospital, six of them in critical condition, says Chief of...

SF Crash Passengers: Plane Was Dangerously Low

NTSB recovered flight recorders; Facebook honcho was supposed to be aboard

(Newser) - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 swept in to land at San Francisco's airport at such a dangerously low altitude that passengers could see the ocean 10 feet below them. "I don't see any runway, I just see water," one tells CNN . Seconds later, the plane plowed into...

2 Dead in San Francisco Plane Crash

2 fatalities, 181 hospitalized

(Newser) - Two people have died and 181 have been hospitalized in a plane crash at San Francisco Airport today. One of the 291 passengers and 16 crew members who was on board Asiana Airlines flight 214 remains unaccounted for, reports CBS . Some 49 people are in critical condition, reports CNN , with...

No Bomb, Missile Behind TWA 800 Crash: NTSB

Board declines to comment on petition for new probe

(Newser) - Despite claims to the contrary, there is no evidence that a bomb or missile caused the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, the National Transportation Safety Board insisted in a press conference yesterday. NTSB officials declined to comment directly on whether a petition calling for a fresh investigation will...

Italian Fashion Boss's Crashed Plane Found

Venezuela says it has located plane

(Newser) - The doomed plane of Italian fashion exec Vittorio Missoni has been located. Venezuela announced today it found the crashed tourist plane, which vanished off the Venezuelan coast after taking off from the Los Roques archipelago in January, Reuters reports. No further details were given. Missoni was onboard with his wife,...

Wing Walker, Pilot Killed in Air Show Plane Crash

It goes down near Dayton

(Newser) - A wing walker and pilot were killed today in a fiery plane crash at an air show near Dayton, Ohio, the AP reports. They were identified as stunt woman Jane Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker, according to the Dayton Daily News . "My understanding is there was nothing [emergency responders]...

Plane Missing Since 2008 Found 3K Feet Underwater

Discovered off Venezuela by US search boat

(Newser) - A plane missing for more than five years has been discovered by a US search boat off Venezuela. The small plane, with ID code YV2081, carried five Venezuelans, a Swiss citizen, and eight Italians. It was found some 3,000 feet underwater about six miles off Los Roques archipelago, the...

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