way to work as a helicopter pilot and mechanic on a large korean-owned fishing boat. the jet lifts off from seoul, south korea about 8:53 p.m. local time. the date, august 6th, 1997. the flight set off from seoul to guam was nothing out of ordinary. just a pleasant night flight. with a median temperature of 89 degrees, guam has an agreeable climate, but there s a grim flip side to that. august is rainy season with an average rainfall of more than 12 inches. as the 747 approaches the airport it runs right into a cell of heavy rain moving in from the northeast but small in seat 36k over the right wing doesn t worry. i can see the lights of guam out of the right-hand side of
passengers who are tourists and honeymooners, small is on his way to work as a helicopter pilot and mechanic on a large koreanowned fishing boat. the jet lifts off from seoul, south korea at 10:05 p.m. local time. the date, august 6th, 1997. the flight itself from seoul to guam was nothing out of ordinary. just a pleasant night flight. with a median temperature of 89 degrees, guam has an agreeable climate, but there s a grim flip side to that. august is rainy season with an average rainfall of more than 12 inches. as the 747 approaches the airport it runs right into a cell of heavy rain moving in from the northeast but small in seat 36k over the right wing doesn t worry. i can see the lights of guam out of the righthand side of the aircraft, and we were ascending without a carriage down.
computers, and in fact there are some indications that the pilots did not act properly during this situation and they could carry some of the blame. there are victims families, groups who are pressing lawsuits and they tend to agree with that. we ll see a final report over the summer where conclusions will be made and we ll have more indications of really what happened. shannon: thank you, greg. we did a about it of a research, found that flight crew error got the blame in some other big crashess including an incident march 27th, 1977, a pan am flight collided with a klm royal flight. the klm aircraft apparently took off without proper clearance. 335 people died. on september 1st 1983 a korean airlines flight was shot down when it entered soviet air space, 269 people died on that flight. and on august 6th, 1997 another korean airlines flight crashed when the captain did not follow proper approach landing procedures. 228 people died in that accide