Asiana 214 – A Failure of Standardized Procedures? By Bruce Croft – www.twozerowest.com In her final on-site briefing NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman added what are in my view two final but highly significant pieces of factual information contributing to the investigation into the cause of the crash of Asiana 214. We learned that there was conversation about being above, then on, and then below the glidepath for the approach – in that order, and we also learned that there was no mention of the aircraft’s speed until a little less than nine seconds prior to impact. What these facts taken...