American investigators this week examined (1) from the Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed last Saturday at San Francisco airport. Officials say two kinds of equipment, the autopilot and auto-throttle, did not appear to have failed. American and South Korean officials are working together on the investigation. Asiana is Korea's second largest airline after Korean Air.
Asiana Flight 214 was carrying more than 300 people from Seoul to the United States. They included 141 Chinese, 77 Koreans and 61 Americans. Two passengers died after the crash. More than 180 people were taken to California (2) for treatment. They were injured when the airplane, a Boeing 777, crash-landed.
Information from the plane's flight data recorder shows that the aircraft was traveling too slowly as it (3) in for a landing. The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off.
Investigators are also attempting to understand (4) that led to a 90 second delay in the order for everyone to leave the airplane. The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, met with reporters Thursday in San Francisco. She said her investigators had questioned six of the 12 flight (5) . The other six remained hospitalized.
Ms. Hersman said investigators would talk with all the flight (6) as they try to learn about the performance of the plane’s safety equipment. Two flight crew members were injured when emergency escape equipment inflated inside the airplane.
The equipment is supposed to open up outside the plane so passengers can (7) . The air safety official said the manufacturer of the device had offered to cooperate in the investigation.
At (8) , the NTSB chairwoman said the pilot at the controls was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777.
But the head of Asiana Airlines (9) that the pilot and his co-pilot trainer lacked experience. Speaking at his company's headquarters in Seoul, Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo defended the pilots' training.
(10) . Senator Charles Schumer is from New York, where a 2009 plane crash killed 49 people.
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