Asiana Crash
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200 crashed short of the landing runway at San Francisco International Airport after a flight from Seoul, South Korea. Three of the 307 people in the airplane were killed and dozens were injured in the July 6 accident, and the airplane was destroyed. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB’s) investigation of the accident was continuing.
Preliminary NTSB findings noted that, in the seconds before the airplane struck a sea wall just short of the runway, its airspeed dropped to about 30 kt below the target threshold speed of 137 kt.
The airplane was being flown by an experienced 747 pilot undergoing initial operating experience in the 777, under the supervision of an instructor pilot who was conducting his first trip in that capacity, the NTSB said.
It was the first accident involving an airliner in the United States since Feb. 12, 2009, when a Colgan Air Bombardier Q400 crashed during approach to Buffalo Nia…
