[Gay State Conservative]

Asiana Airlines Inc said the pilot in charge of landing the Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday was training for the long-range plane and that it was his first flight to the airport with the jet.

Yikes!

[moviefan8]

Well, hopefully he doesn’t return to the cockpit. He failed.

[bunkerhill7]

Passengers should be notified before they board

that they will be passengers in a Driver`s Ed class.

[TADSLOS]

Who was the Pilot in Command?

[NautiNurse]

Costly lesson.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I understand that pilots need experience that is how they learn how to be pilots, but the co-pilot, he supposedly knew what he was doing..what the hell was he doing the entire time, just sitting there like a bump on a log

[2111USMC]

Well I suppose he’s going to lose points for that landing.

[Paladin2]

Ruh-Roh.

[tpmintx]

Consider: The co-pilot, with significantly more B777 experience, did not challenge the captain’s throttle settings, airspeed or anything. The captain was allowed to save face, all the way to impact.

[BluH2o]

Similar scenario in the cockpit of the Air France flight that went down over the South Atlantic several years ago. In this instance it wasn't an approach landing but at 30, 000 ft. plus when the aircraft went thru a thunderstorm. Captain was taking a short rest break and inexperienced pilot lost control.

[NonValueAdded]

CRM failure then? The co-pilot / trainer deferring to the pilot, not wanting to correct his superior?

[GSP.FAN]

Jeez!Admitting guilt unheard of.
Well their goes another airline.

[depressed in 06]

It will take 18 months to conclude pilot error.

[bboop]

Why did they release the pilot’s name? Good grief.

[SkyDancer]

Wasn’t the chief pilot monitoring his approach? When all the system alarms was telling him he’s too low and too slow why didn’t the chief pilot take over? You don’t do a check ride with a full load of passengers.

[Vince Ferrer]

I suspected as much, as this seems like a very basic pilot error. Now the question is how well were the pilots trained at that airline? Do they really know how to fly an airplane, or are they taught to enter numbers into a flight computer?

[njslim]

Guess he failed the final exam.....?

[AlexW]

I see a lot of mindless speculation and jumping to conclusions on this thread.
Every pilot has a first time for landing at ANY airport.
Everyone, including FReepers, should calm down until an official investigation is complete. Remember, news reports are, more often then not, full of inaccuracies or total misinformation.
Remember the old adage “Better to be thought a fool, then to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

[Innovative]

CNN has a bit more info:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

“The pilot, Lee Kang-gook, had flown from Seoul to the city several times between 1999 and 2004, the airline said.”

In other words he had not flown to SF for the past 10 years and didn’t have experience with a Boeing 777 (just 43 hrs). It turned out to be a lethal combination.

[dragnet2]

Pilots with gray hair or no hair are very preferable when you happen to be a passenger.

Actually this goes the same for many professions...