US: Asian plane crash due to pilot mismanagement

US: Asian plane crash due to pilot mismanagement
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pilot mismanagement and confusion caused Asiana Flight 214 to crash in San Francisco last year, U.S. accident investigators concluded Tuesday.
 
The National Transportation Safety Board said there was confusion over whether one of the airliner's key controls was maintaining speed.
 
The agency also cited the complexity of the Boeing 777's autothrottle and pilot training by the South Korea-based airline as contributing to the crash, which killed three passengers and injured more than 200.
 
The plane, with 307 people on board, was too low and too slow during the landing attempt. Its tail struck a seawall and was ripped off. The rest of plane went spinning and sliding down the runway. The crash was the only fatal passenger airline accident in the U.S. in the last five years.
 
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Despite the violence of the crash, only three people were killed - Chinese teens seated in the back who may not have been wearing their seatbelts and were thrown from the plane. One of the teenage girls survived the crash but was run over by two rescue vehicles in the chaos afterward. Nearly 200 people were injured.