Planes getting ready to take off from landing, where the crash happened. The underlying point here is mistakes made by the pilots, including overreliance on Automated Systems they didnt really understand, leading to confusion and a response that came too late, resulting in three people dying, another almost 200 injured. This was the first deadly crash involving a 777. The ntsb concluding that the probable cause involved overall the flight crew seasoned with a good Safety Record mismanaging the airplanes descent during the final approach, the complexity of the auto pilot and throttle systems, both insufficient description in boeings manuals and asianas training. The ntsb put together 30 findings altogether. Most of them focusing on the flight crew. The three pilots had more than one chance to correct what was a bad final approach into sfo and failed to recognize that, calling for a goaround too late. Experts testifying the pilots made up to 30 different mistakes. And the ntsb concluding
Those computers. The fuselage seen smoking along runway 28 left remains seared in the memories of mondany who witnessed it a year ago. But here at the probable cause hearing in washington, there was data from the black boxes, and an animation showing the plane flying towards disaster with a graph to its right clearly showing how the airplane flew unstable, first, way too high. Then way too low, then critically slow, all the way until it crashed. Is it the pilots responsibility . The answer to that is yes. Thats why we say the pilots always must be in command and must always be the boss. Reporter the board voted unanimously to agree with the staffs 30something findings. Including that the crash was pilot error. What one investigator caused a cascading series of errors, 20 to 30 of them in all. The probable cause was the flight crews Miss Management of the planes approach. Reporter the crew failed to monitor air speed and understand the information in the cockpit and exactly how it worke
Oakland airport today. The veteran firefighter had recently transferred to the airport and was at the wheel of his rig when something went wrong. His name is mitchell owl. And tonight were learn mortgage about the 55yearold. Terry mcsweeney joins us live from Highland Hospital. Terry . Reporter and everything we are hearing about this man, this 28year veteran of the Oakland Fire Department is so very positive, how talent head is, how incredibly athletic he is. And the word we kept hearing over and over tonight, how kind he is. And he is right now at Highland Hospital in the intensive care unit. But there are some indications that he may be able to pull through this tragedy. It happened while the elite rescue Firefighting Team was doing its monthly drill. A fire truck driven by al, carrying 3,000 gallons of water crashed just before noon today. It was during this drill that one of our members had an accident, road one of the fire rescue apparatus. Reporter the chief says she wont commen
He attended todays hearing, hes live in washington, d. C. So much what was said today, what you said, too much reliance on that automated system. Exactly right. While the ntsb does not assign blame in any kind of accident and wont in this case, todays vote did send a message and say multiple contributing factors did lead to this accident. The bottom line, according to ntsb acting chairman christopher hart, the pilots must fly the plane, and in this case, they did not, at least not to the standards that was expected. The disaster that cost three people their lives and dozens of other passengers serious injuries started to unfold ntsb investigators say, miles away from sfo. As the three pilots onboard asiana flight 214 brought the boeing 777 airplane into land too high in whats called an unstable approach. Just from about 14 miles on in, somewhere between 20 and 30, depending how you define an error. Reporter it only got worse from there. One investigator called it a cascade of errors. T
I understand that he was a Senior Member within the airport and that he was very experienced. Also understand that he was very like and respected by a lot of his peers. The firefighter was participating in a simulated red alert drill when the accident happened the aircraft rescue Fire Fighting rig can hold close to 3,000 gallons of water and 420 gallons of foam and right now its still unclear what cause the vehicle to tip. We are going to have to wait on the results of the investigation to find out exactly what. What oaklands fire chief says the firefighter has plenty of experience operating the rig, and because of that the accident comes as a complete surprise to her department. The department is in shock the. This man was very well liked and respected by many. Within many. The federal investigators charged with figuring out why Asiana Airlines flight 214. Crashed in San Francisco last year. Blames the pilots. But also boeing, and local emergency responders. Kron 4s dan kerman breaks