Asiana Airlines revealed the pilot in charge of landing the Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco's airport was training for the long-range plane and that it was his first flight to the airport with the jet
The pilot had 43 hours of experience of flying the 777, a spokesperson for the airline revealed. His co-pilot, Lee Jeong-Min had 3,200 hours of flying experience aboard a 777 and was in the cockpit with Kang-Kook when disaster struck.
The crew tried to increase its speed and abort its landing just seconds before it hit the seawall in front of the airport runway
Recordings show crew had no concerns before landing then tried to 'go around' 1.5 seconds before impact
The airport's Glide Path system, which is designed to avoid runway misses in a variety of weather, was switched off
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