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Details of San Francisco air crash emerge

It’s emerged the crew of the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 jet that crash-landed in San Francisco tried to abort its landing just seconds before it hit the seawall in front of the runway.

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Air Accident Investigators says information from the cockpit voice recorder and black boxes indicated the aircraft was significantly below its target approach speed.

A pilot in charge who was was a veteran flyer and only had 43 hours experience flying a Boeing 777 and was in training when the crash happened

Two people died in the crash over the weekend – 182 others were injured, 6 remain in a critical condition.

 

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