thetic earning season. now the asiana plane crash. was it pilot error? mechanical failure? what was it? federal investigators are trying to quickly determine why the south korean airliner hit a sea wall as the it approached the sea wall in san francisco sunday. i want to emphasize for those who have not heard of this airline, it won award for service and quality. not a run of the brand of airline, fly by night, serious, respected airline. the tail was represented off the jet. skidding across the runway before the burst into flames. the ntsb the plane was flying 30 miles an hour shorter than it should have been as it approached landing. about three seconds prior to impact the flight data recorder recorded its lowest speed of 103 knots. at this time, the engines were
reporter: this is asiana airlines flight 214 coming from seoul in south korea, 10 1/2-hour flight into san francisco airport, and on approach at about 11:27 yesterday morning on runway 28 left, apparently by all accounts this plaenl came in a little low and a little slow according to eyewitnesses and literally the tail slammed into the sea barrier wall just before runway 28 left begins. the plane then slammed down onto the runway and skidded down the runway before then going into a grassy area. immediately the emergency chutes deployed. there was an evacuation of all 300-plus people on board this plane. unfortunately, as you reported, there were a couple of fatalities. the investigation is now going to focus on why this happened, of course. was it pilot error? was there a mechanical issue? was there some sort of an avionics issue? it is interesting that the president of asiana airlines this morning said he does not believe that there was an engine problem. now, the ntsb investigators
happened? reporter: this is asiana airlines flight 214 coming from seoul in south korea, 10 1/2-hour flight into san francisco airport, and on approach at about 11:27 yesterday morning on runway 28 left, apparently by all accounts this plaenl came in a little low and a little slow according to eyewitnesses and literally the tail slammed into the sea barrier wall just before runway 28 left begins. the plane then slammed down onto the runway and skidded down the runway before then going into a grassy area. immediately the emergency chutes deployed. there was an evacuation of all 300-plus people on board this plane. unfortunately, as you reported, there were a couple of fatalities. the investigation is now going to focus on why this happened, of course. was it pilot error? was there a mechanical issue? was there some sort of an avionics issue? it is interesting that the president of asiana airlines this morning said he does not believe that there was an engine problem. now, the ntsb inv
the descent rate was too high they started too high. the engines were spooled back. when they could gain speed again, it was too late. heather: why did that happen initially? was it pilot error? guest: no one likes to use that term. i don t like to use it, either. it probably does involve error of judgment there. the cockpit resource management, c.r.m. is very important. how they pass off to each pilot, their responsibilities and the non flying pilot should have warned him possibly earlier than he did in order to get airspeed back up. heather: doctor, thank you for joining us with your insight. gregg: the most noted pilot in the country, captain sully who landed the flier the flight safely on the hudson river is reacting to the crash and describes the difficulty
cowan. thank you for joining us. they accuse them of tampering with evidence and even go as far as russia of helping separatist rebels destroy the evidence. so how is the ukrainian government going to ever get to the truth if russia doesn t cooperate? well, julie, this is such an interesting issue that hasn t really been addressed properly yet, i think. the notion of an investigation. typically when an aircraft goes down there is an investigation run by international authorities that looks to the cause. was it a mechanical malfunction? was it pilot error? was it a terrorist incident, whatever? in this case we know clearly, everybody knows exactly what happened. that aircraft was struck by a missile fired from the ground. and therefore the only evidence on the ground that may be important is pieces of that missile. it doesn t matter where the missile hit the aircraft. it s pieces of that missile. and certainly the russians or the ukrainian separatists are trying to decide what things