NTSB Hearing on Crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214

摘要

The release in late 2013 of a U.S. government-industry report titled Operational Use of Flight Path Management Systems roughly coincided with a public investigative hearing on Dec. 11 by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The subject was the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777, at San Francisco International Airport. Preliminary NTSB factual reports and the agency's public statements about the event - in which the aircraft struck a seawall before reaching the landing runway threshold during a visual approach while the glide slope of the instrument landing system was out of service - say that one of the investigators'areas of focus is the pilots'interface with flight deck automation.