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Air crash investigators have it could take years to the exact cause of why an Asiana Airlines flight crash-landed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday. Deborah Hersman, head of the USA's National Transportation Safety Board, said it was too early to whether or not the accident was the result of pilot error. Many analysts have already that it was very unlikely that mechanical error was , the excellent safety record of the Boeing 777 aircraft. Kevin Hiatt, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, reporters that any conclusions about what the crash are months, if not years, away. What is is that the plane was too slowly as it the runway.

As firefighters the last of the flames from the burning wreckage, survivors the horror of from the aircraft. They it was a miracle that 305 of the 307 people on board it out alive. Two Chinese students died in the accident. Passengers were quick to the professionalism, quick thinking and selflessness of the flight attendants, one of whom an injured passenger to safety. Frequent Asiana flyer Eugene Rah the heroism of flight attendant Jiyeon Kim, : "She was a hero. This tiny, little girl was people piggyback, running everywhere, with tears running down her face. She was , but she was still so calm and helping people."

 


 
 
 

 

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