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  • Asiana Pilot Set Throttles He Didn’t Understand to Idle

    12/12/2013 11:51:55 AM PST · by Zhang Fei · 62 replies
    SF Gate ^ | December 11, 2013 | Alan Levin and Jeff Plungis
    An Asiana Airlines Inc. captain nervous about making a manual landing in San Francisco inadvertently disabled a speed-control system before the plane crashed into a seawall on July 6, documents show. Lee Kang Kuk, a veteran pilot with Seoul-based Asiana who was being trained on the Boeing Co. 777-200ER wide-body, had momentarily adjusted the power without realizing the plane’s computers then assumed he wanted the engines to remain at idle, according to information released today at a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board hearing. The documents, while showing the pilots made errors, raise questions about how auto-throttles on Boeing planes are...