Asiana Recommendations
Boeing should be required to enhance training for pilots of 777s to “improve flight crew understanding of autothrottle modes and automatic activation system logic,” the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
The recommendation is one of 27 included in the NTSB’s final report on the July 6, 2013, crash of an Asiana Airlines 777 when it struck a seawall during approach to San Francisco International Airport. The crash killed three of the 307 people in the airplane, and 49 others were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed.
The NTSB said the probable cause of the crash was the flight crew’s “mismanagement of the airplane’s descent during the visual approach, the pilot flying’s unintended deactivation of automatic airspeed control, the flight crew’s inadequate monitoring of airspeed and the flight crew’s delayed execution of a go-around.”
The NTSB’s investigation of the accident prompted its issuance of …
