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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (725310)	7/9/2013 2:39:42 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1583331

Pilot in SF Crash Was Still Training IT WAS HIS FIRST ATTEMPT TO LAND 777 AT SFO By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Jul 8, 2013 4:11 AM CDT (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 of aircraft at the site. Asiana Airlines pilot Lee Kang-kook was still in training for the jet and was being assisted by a co-pilot with more than 3,000 hours of flight experience with the 777, Reutersreports. National Transportation Safety Board investigators haven't settled on pilot error as the cause of the crash but the investigation is focusing on why the plane came in to land at "significantly below" the right speed and why the crew didn't try to abort the landing until 1.5 seconds before the crash, the Wall Street Journal reports. The airline's chief executive says he does not believe the crash—the first fatal one involving a 777—was caused by mechanical failure.