Pursuits
Asiana Pilot Set Throttles He Didn’t Understand to Idle
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An Asiana Airlines Inc. captain nervous about making a visual landing in San Francisco inadvertently disabled a speed-control system before the plane crashed into a seawall on July 6, documents show.
Lee Kang Kuk, a veteran with Seoul-based Asiana who was being trained on the Boeing Co. 777-200ER wide-body, had momentarily adjusted the power without realizing the plane’s computers then assumed he wanted the engines to remain at idle, according to information released yesterday at a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board hearing.