That had nothing to do with the accident, and all reports we are getting is
that this accident will not affect the 777 sales for I think this is the
first death to happen from a 777 if my memory is not wrong. I think we had
a crash in London where everyone survived and this one is the first death.
How many hours has this thing flown? I think it is good and the markets have
not shown any otherwise so far. It is even strange that society is way more
concerned about this aircraft that killed only 2 16 year olds than a train
that plowed through a Quebec city that we still have no numbers of
causalities.
Difference? The train was carrying fuel and dont dare say fuel is a danger
to go through cities.
EM
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Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 9:05 PM
To: UAH; Edward Pojim; John Nsubuga
Subject: [UAH] POJIM; ELECTRONIC LANDING SYSTEM WAS OFF DURING CRASH.
Electronic landing system was off at San Francisco airport during crash
Tom Costello and Chairman of the NTSB, Debbie Hersman discuss the latest
developments on the crash landing in San Francisco.
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News
A navigational technology that steers commercial pilots to safe landings was
not operational at San Francisco's airport Saturday when a South Korean
airliner came in at an awkward angle and
<http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/07/19331650-ntsb-officials-recover-
black-boxes-from-san-francisco-crash-site?lite> crashed on the runway,
officials said.
San Francisco International Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said that a key
component of the facility's instrument landing system that tracks and guides
an arriving airplane's course was turned off.
The airport has turned off the system for nearly the entire summer on the
runway where the Asiana flight crashed, according to a notice from the
airport on the Federal Aviation Administration's Web site, Reuters reported.
It showed the system out of service June 1-August 22 on runway 28 Left.
The so-called Glide Path technology, which calculates an airplane's path of
descent and transmits the data to pilots in real time, is a commonly used
but by no means essential tool, said Barry Schiff, a pilot and author who
has written extensively about aviation safety.
"The system was designed to be used at nights or during inclement weather
events, like fog," Schiff told NBC News on Sunday. "But it's not anything
that's required on a clear, beautiful day like yesterday."
Asiana Flight 214 slammed on the runway in relatively favorable weather
conditions sunny skies, patches of clouds, and light wind.
Kevin Hiatt, chief executive of the Flight Safety Foundation and a former
Delta Airlines pilot, said airports frequently take ground-based instrument
landing systems offline for maintenance on clear days.
<http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/52409712/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=52
409712&wbSection=news&wbSlideShowTeaseId=52409755> Slideshow: Asiana Flight
214 crashes at SFO
<http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/52409712/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=52
409712&wbSection=news&wbSlideShowTeaseId=52409755>
Josh Edelson / AFP - Getty Images
A Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crash landed at SFO.
<http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/52409712/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=52
409712&wbSection=news&wbSlideShowTeaseId=52409755> Launch slideshow
Schiff said pilots can use several other technological tools and visual cues
to make descents on a clear, crisp day. And yet, according to Schiff, the
unidentified pilot of the Boeing 777 somehow could not manage to make a
stable, steady landing Saturday.
"He showed a lack of skill, a lack of recognition that he was coming in too
low and too slow," Schiff opined. "He should have recognized that before he
got to the seawall. If he had, everything would have turned out fine."
"That's the big mystery," Schiff added. "Why didn't he recognize that?"
Federal investigations announced Saturday that it was
<http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/07/19331650-ntsb-officials-recover-
black-boxes-from-san-francisco-crash-site?lite> too premature to determine a
cause of the horrific crash, which killed at least two people and injured
more than 100 others. A team from the National Transportation Safety Board
assumed control of the probe late Saturday and was sifting through various
evidence on Sunday and it could be months or even years before the exact
reason for the crash is known.
Schiff said he thinks many commercial pilots rely far too heavily on
technologies like Glide Path and not enough on human intuition and skills --
a sentiment that has been voiced by Mary Schiavo, the former Inspector
General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to Reuters.
"Pilots are becoming more and more dependent on automization and
computerization," Schiff said. "And when they're called upon to revert to
old-fashioned abilities," they can make mistakes.
The Federal Aviation Administration has advocated for flight training that
includes instruction in "manual" forms of flying and traditional practices,
Schiff said.
Reuters and Julie Yoon, F. Brinley Bruton and Matthew DeLuca of NBC News
contributed to this report.
Viele GruBe
Robukui
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