Investigators have said the plane came in too low and slow. [96] On June 24, 2014, the NTSB published to YouTube a narrated accident sequence animation. OAKLAND, Calif. - A San Francisco Bay Area TV station has apologized after reporting bogus names of the four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214 that were a play on Asian names. London, United Kingdom: BSkyB. A representative for the transportation agency would not say whether the intern was fired for blunder. Bay area television station KTVU on Friday falsely reported the names of the four pilots aboard Asiana Flight 214 as racially offensive epithets. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. [18][19] Bong Dong-won received medical treatment for a cracked rib; none of the other pilots needed hospital care. [62][53], The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a team of 20 to the scene to investigate. Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie Hubka. ", Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross are San Francisco Chronicle columnists. The families of those who died were paid more than $10,000 as an initial compensation," Lee said, without providing a specific figure.[110][124]. Over-reliance on automation and lack of systems understanding by the pilots were cited as major factors contributing to the accident. [23], Wang Linjia (Chinese: ) and Ye Mengyuan (), with Chinese passports, were found dead outside the aircraft soon after the crash after having been thrown out of the plane during the accident. Soon after, the NTSB announced that it had fired a summer intern over the incident. 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Submit your coronavirus news tip. They speak on Bloomberg . Three passengers, all girls, died as a result of the first notable U.S. air crash in four years. The crew There were three pilots in the cockpit at the time of the crash, according to crew. July 25, 2013 / 10:21 AM / CBS San Francisco. Sources told KCBS and KPIX 5 political reporter Phil Matier that the fake names - which had been floating around the Internet days prior to the TV report - were emailed to KTVU by an expert source who had provided information to the station in thepast. At 11:26a.m., Northern California TRACON ("NorCal Approach") handed the flight off to San Francisco tower. [23], Preliminary analysis indicated that the plane's approach was too slow and too low. 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He can also be heard on KCBS radio Monday through Friday at 7:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. Got a tip? The stock has fallen 18 percent this year, compared with a 0.2 percent climb in South Koreas benchmark Kospi index. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. However the descent path they were on continued and the thrust applied didn't appear to come soon enough to prevent impact. During a live newscast Friday, KTVU Channel 2 reported the names of the flight crew as: 'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo,' 'Ho Lee Fuk,' and 'Bang Ding Ow'. A representative for the transportation agency would not say whether the intern was fired for blunder. Offering our sincerest apology after falling for a hoax on @KTVU News at noon http://t.co/TCPyauAn0f, 'Right now, the community sees us as not being up to the job, just dragging our feet. KTVU's parent company, Cox Communications has recently sent copyright infringement notices to YouTube demanding that the video clips be removed. [42] Thirty-five of the students were to attend a West Valley Christian School summer camp. Read more about cookies here. They also tried to justify the move saying they confirmed the names with the National Transportation Safety Board before airing them. The aircraft made a fairly drastic-looking pull up in the last few feet and it appeared and sounded as if they had applied maximum thrust. Photo of the interior of Asiana Airlines Flight 214. "We've taken the appropriate action," Kelly Nantel told the National Post. Two months before the accident at SFO, the FAA issued an airworthiness directive ordering inspection of the slide-release mechanism on certain Boeing 777 aircraft in order to detect and correct corrosion that might interfere with slide deployment. After two days, Hayes-White addressed the incident and said that "public officials most certainly have a duty to tell the truth," and that "it would have been speculative and irresponsible to report something without having confirmation" during the first two days while the San Francisco police and National Transportation Safety Board conducted their investigation. )[87][88], Hersman said: "In this flight, in the last 2.5 minutes of the flight, from data on the flight data recorder we see multiple autopilot modes and multiple autothrottle modes We need to understand what those modes were, if they were commanded by pilots, if they were activated inadvertently, if the pilots understood what the mode was doing. The Boeing 777-200ER was being operated as Flight 214 by Asiana Airlines on July 6, 2013, en route from Incheon Airport near Seoul, Korea, to San Francisco International . San Jose news station KTVU aired a list of names they said belonged to the Asiana 214 flight crew, but the mock Asian stereotype names, including Captain Sum Ting Wong, were obviously fake. The NTSB intern responsible for "confirming" the fake names of the crashed Asiana Flight 214 pilots has been fired. [1]:111[21][22], Twelve flight attendants were on board, ten South Korean and two Thai. Asiana Flight 214 Report Takes Pilots To Task. Katie Davies The pilots performed a visual approach[4][10] assisted by the runway's precision approach path indicator (PAPI). 'Then, during our phone call to the NTSB where the person confirmed the spellings of the names, we never asked that person to give us their position with the agency. The accident marked the first fatal incident involving a 777 since its introduction . By Clare Kim. [permanent dead link] [20], Four flight attendants seated at the rear were ejected from the aircraft when the tail section broke off, but they survived. The crew also delayed its decision to abort the landing with the plane flying too slowly to avoid catastrophe, investigators found. [1]:13 Among the seriously injured were four flight attendants who were thrown onto the runway while still strapped in their seats when the tail section broke off after striking the seawall short of the runway. It's still not clear where the names came from, though the San Francisco Chronicle notes that they probably originated at the station the (ex) NTSB intern, who shouldn't have been making statements on behalf of the agency anyway, reportedly confirmed the names in response to a question from a news outlet. Noon news producer Elvin Sledge told colleagues he was leaving for health reasons. [12][55], At 11:28a.m., HL7742[3] crashed short of Runway 28L's threshold. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. [18] (This may prove to be significant, as deactivating neither or both Flight Directors enables and forces an autothrottle "wake-up" whereas deactivating only one Flight Director inhibits an autothrottle "wake-up". The National Transportation Safety Board apologized and blamed an intern on Friday for confirming a set of names said to belong to the pilots of the ill-fated Asiana Flight 214. [73] At least one person recorded it on video. [37] San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White, after checking with two intake points at the airport, told reporters that all on board had been accounted for. July 11, 2013. KTVU News Director Lee Rosenthal called newsroom staff into a conference room Wednesday and informed them of the dismissals. In this instance, the flight crew over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand. Manual flying skills and cockpit teamwork are part of the U.S. probe into the crash of Asiana Flight 214, which struck a seawall short of the San Francisco airport on July 6, killing three people.
