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 "I think things that they're looking at very closely have to do
with the performance of the pilots - their training, their
preparation," Deborah Hersman, former head of the National
Transportation Safety Board, said on the CBS "This Morning"
television program.
The board will examine causes of the July 6, 2013 crash landing of
the Boeing 777, which also injured more than 180 passengers. It was
the first fatal commercial airplane crash in the United States since
February 2009.
Asiana said in a report to the safety board that the crash likely
was due to the pilots flying dangerously slow and an inadequate
warning system that should have alerted them, according to documents
released in March. [ID:nL1N0MT060]
Hersman, who was board chairman until March, told CBS the board will
likely focus on how well the pilots were trained.
"Were they familiar with the system and the different modes that
they operated in? Was there confusion? Did they know what was
happening and were they prepared for the landing that happened in
San Francisco on a clear day?" she said.
She also said the board believed that two of the passengers who died
in the crash were not wearing seat belts.
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The third passenger who died, Chinese teenager Ye Mengyuan, 16, was
covered in fire-fighting foam when she was run over by emergency
vehicles at the crash sight.
Hersman said the board will look at what went wrong in the emergency
response to make sure it doesn't happen again.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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