[XHogPilot]

I am a B-777 pilot, based at SFO, a trained and experienced aircraft accident investigator, and I teach Crew Resource Manangement (CRM). I flew our plane into SFO last Wednesday. I am not involved in the investigation, but I have just looked at the crash site. I've flown into a great number of the airports involved in aircraft hull losses in the last 20 years. I am extremely familiar with the history of asian crews, particularly Korean crews, who defer the the Captain, mitigating all benefits of CRM, and resulting in a pilot caused crash. How about you?

“. It is likely the Asian attempted to use the (inop) ILS and hit well short of the intended touchdown point.”

It is unlikely, not likely. Too much communications about approach for that to happen.

[CodeToad]

You mean to tell us that a crew would use an inop ILS that far down to touchdown? Was the ILS transmitting?

[pops88]

I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed, waiting for a $%^&* slap worthy of John Wayne in “The High and the Mighty.” I can hear my mother saying, “Let the adults talk.”

[MestaMachine]

Is there even a remote possiblity that this was a shootdowm?

[CodeToad]

P.S. What’s the decision height at SFO and why didn’t the pilot initiate a missed approach?