370, families were very upset because they felt as if they weren t receiving updates in a timely fashion. in this case here, we re seeing that the airline is putting out statements and putting out information that they know in a relatively quickly we were able too get information about nationalities of who was on board. there was a hot line given out for people who need more information if they are family members who are onboard this plane. so we are seeing a difference in that way as far as getting out the known information to the people who want to know. those are the about em wpeople t because imagine you have a family member, you re waiting there and that flight now we re talking more than five hours an the flight has not landed. yeah. so we do see at least in that way, lessons learned as far as information being put out quickly. yeah. renae marsh joining us on the phone. cnn s aviation and government regulation correspondent. we really appreciate it.
and better training and explanation for how the systems work. they also made recommendations for post crash response. if you remember one of the three passengers who died was hit by an emergency vehicle. the ntsb recommended more studies be done on the injuries of the people onboard to come up with ways to make the cabin even safer. one more people. i really want to hammer home that two of the three people who were killed in this incident they were not wearing seatbelts and the ntsb clearly stated today they believed that those people would have survived if they were wearing seatbelts. brooke. renae marsh. thank you so much. sure. coming up, remember this little girl? oh, we talked about her for months. little sara mernahan. last year she received not one but two lung transplanted from adult lungs since she was 10 years of achblge.
the ntsb is citing mismanagement by the crew as the krauz. sight 214 bounced off a sea wall at san francisco s international airport. flipped and burst into flames. three people died. renae marsh joins us now. so, when we hear the pilots, renae, what precisely what s the was the driving factor in that ruling? so yeah. that was the headline brooke. pilot error. the ntsb just ruled this. they say it was the action and sometimes inaction of the pilots that caused the asiana flight 214 to crash. the ntsb specifically says the flight crew relied too heavily on the plane s automated systems to land the plane. they didn t fully understand how those systems worked. take a listen. the errors of the pilots were not because of incompetency, they were because of an
my perspective. i had no idea what happened. it was gnarly looking. a left turn. renae marsh is our aviation correspondent. don, it has happened again. two planes with passengers on board get too close in the skies and we now know the faa is investigating. turn right. right turn. two more passenger planes get too close in the skies. on may 9, united flight 601 and united 437 took off from bush international airport in houston at roughly the same time. shortly after take-off, flight 601 is told to turn right, putting it in the path of the other plane. moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. 601, stop the turn right there, sir. united 601, stop your climbing, stop your turn. the two planes came within
found from 2012 it shows that planes got too close nearly 4400 times within one year. we should also note 41 of those were considered high risk. don? renae, thank you very much for that. and you know, i want to remind you about a new series coming soon called the 60s. it s a decade that changed the world and reshaped american s lives that still affect us today. be sure you check it out next thursday night, 9:00 eastern and pacific here on cnn. a mountain climber takes a devastating fall. 70 feet down in the ice, into the ice and managed to survive it. hear what he says kept him alive next. plus lots of great graduation commencement speeches and we will give you a taste of some of the very best, next. i m randy and i quit smoking with chantix. as a police officer, i ve helped many people in the last 23 years. but i needed help in quitting smoking.