Abc 7 news starts right now with live breaking news. Oh my god oh, its an accident. Oh, youre filming it too. Oh my god. The moment of impact of flight 214 captured on camera. And tonight there is word the pilot may have had very little experience flying this type of jet. Good evening, everyone, im carolyn johnson. And im dan ashley. In for ama daetz tonight. New focus on the asiana pilot at the controls. Lee kangkook had only 43 hours of experience with the boeing 777, the plane that crashed, and it was his first time landing the plane at sfo. The ntsb revealed lee and the captain trying to abort the landing seconds before it crashed. Warnings went off in the cockpit before it crashed. And preliminary finds from the flight data recorder show the plane was flying below the target speed. Now we have Live Team Coverage on these developments, and some amazing survival stories. Lets start with the investigation into what went wrong. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at sfo tonight.
And preliminary finds from the flight data recorder show the plane was flying below the target speed. Now we have Live Team Coverage on these developments, and some amazing survival stories. Lets start with the investigation into what went wrong. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at sfo tonight. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. Were learning tonight the pilot of this plane had lots of experience and other types of planes, like 747s, but not this one. Still, the ntsb is not ready to call this crash pilot lot of th. The pilot of the asiana flight that crash landed at sfo saturday had never flown a 777 into San Francisco before. A spokeswoman for asiana told reuters, quote, it was lee kangkooks maiden flight to the airport with the jet. He was in training. Even a veteran gets training for a new jet. Everything is on the table right now. It is too early ru to rule anytg out. Reporter the ntsb isnt ready yet to assign blame for the crash that killed two people, butter inndings indicat find
And the ntsb will interview the pilots possibly today. Two teens were killed with 182 injurisdiction out of 307 open board. We have coverage from sfo and Amy Hollyfield will have more on the emergency responders. We first have abc7 news cover with the latest on the investigation. The ntsb hopes to interview the pilot and crew of asiana flight 214 as soon as today at sfo. The wreckage remains off the runway with new information today that the pilot was still in training to fly this type of aircraft and had never flown into sfo before. This video of the wreck an was shot by the ntsb, closeup shots of the planes tail and landing, with the jet possibly flying too low and slow as it slammed into the end of the runway. One pilot logged only 43 hours on a boeing 777 and only flown it nine times. This was the first landing at sfo but asiana flight 214 says he is a veteran flight with hours of experience flying other planes. We want to take a look at that and understand training. We want to und
That began yesterday. There will be a new come point. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield has the latest on that. Amy . They have to finish the interviews. They will want to talk to the air Traffic Controllers at sfo about the communication seconds before the crash. They are looking at the pilots, their actions. They have learned the pilots were coming in too slowly on saturday morning before the crash and the pilot disconnected all computers and took over manually. They will look at the training of the pilots. The pilot was learning how to fly that type of airplane and had never landed one of these airplanes at sfo. He was an internetted pilot and prior captain but working on getting ratings on the 777 and initial operating experience from the 777. The investigation will continue today. There is no word on how much longer the runway will be blocked with the debris. They have to catalog every piece of evidence, of the plane that is out there. It could take a year to figure out the cause
Good tuesday morning, everyone. We begin with that brandnew video released early this morning. The three women held captive in cleveland for a decade, all speaking publicly for the first time. Its a message of thanks to their many supporters for the encouragement and financial donations. But it also reveals much about their road to recovery. Two months after their nightmare ended, a message of hope. Im getting stronger today. Reporter amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight, breaking their public silence together, in a video released overnight. It starts with berrys message of thanks. I want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with my family and friends. Its been unbelievable. I want to thank everyone who has helped me and my family through this entire ordeal. Reporter it was may 6th, when berry yelled for help from behind a locked screen door, bringing the worlds attention to the cleveland home where the trio had been held against their will for more than a decade. Each