Following the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214 that was travelling from Seoul, South Korea to San Francisco, details are now emerging about went went wrong abroad the Boeing 777, and the errors that may have been made by the flight crew.
The 11-hour journey is reported to have gone relatively smoothly as the 291 passengers traveled across the Pacific.
That is until the very last few moments.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the plane began its descent into San Francisco International Airport too slowly and the pilots didn’t realize it until it was too late.
The NTSB Chairwoman, Deborah A. P. Hersman, suggested that crew members had little inkling of the impending crash until about seven seconds before impact, when one is heard on a cockpit recording calling for an increase in speed.
The call came too late.
Barbara Peterson, senior aviation correspondent for Conde Nast Traveler, joins The Takeaway to examine what went wrong on Asiana Flight 214.
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