Crash investigators turn to cockpit decisions

[News Manager]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators trying to understand why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed focused Monday on the actions of an experienced pilot learning his way around a new aircraft, fellow pilots who were supposed to be monitoring him and why no one noticed that the plane was coming in too slow.




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[BritinBritain]

From news reports I've read, the captain was inexperienced with the type. I find it astonishing that a pilot/captain should be allowed to captain an aircraft he had very little experience of.