captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. the head of the national transportation safety board said today that asiana flight 214 crashed because the flight crew overrelied on automated systems that they did not understand. in its report, the n.t.s.b. said boeing should consider modifying the flight controls. last july 6, flight 214 crashed at the threshold of the runway at san francisco international. three chinese teenagers were killed. 187 passengers were hurt. it was the only deadly crash of a passenger jet in the u.s. in the last five years. here s transportation correspondent jeff pegues. reporter: before the plane crashed at san francisco international airport, all three pilots in the cockpit missed important warnings. according to investigators, coming in for a landing, the plane was off target. it was traveling too low and air speed was too slow to make the runway. the pilots mistakenly believed ththe t
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pelley: good evening. this i our western edition. the war president obama wanted so much to put behind him is back with a vengeance and demanding his attention. tonight, two and a half years after the last u.s. troops left iraq, the country is in danger of falling apart. and hundreds of americans are being evacuated this evening. government forces are battling militants who are taking back territory where thousands of american troops died, and they re vowing to march on to baghdad. mr. obama said all options are open for helping the iraqi government, but his spokesman said that does not include boots on the ground. we have a series of reports on this important, breaking story. first, holly williams in iraq. reporter: thousands continue to flee the fighting, streaming across the to iraqi kurdistan, a region that enjoys relative peace. amer riad hussein told us he s a soldier in the iraqi army who fought against the militants when they seized the city of mosul on tuesday.
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the head of the national transportation safety board said today that aci crashed because the flight crew over-relied on automated systems that they did not understand. in its report, the n.t.s.b. said boeing should consider modifying the flight controls. last july 6, flight 214 crashed at the threshold of the runway at san francisco international. three chinese teenagers were killed. 187 passengers were hurt. it was the only deadly crash of a passenger jet in the u.s. in the last five years. here s transportation correspondent jeff pegues. reporter: before the plane crashed at san francisco international airport, all three pilots in the cockpit missed important warnings. according to investigators, coming in for a landing, the plane was off target. it was traveling too low and air speed was too slow to make the runway. the pilots mistakenly believed the auto-throttle, wh
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