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Search for cause in Korean air crash focuses on pilot's error
AGANAB. Guam. Aug 8: The pilot of Korean Air Flight 801 appears to have inadvertently steered the Jet straight into a hillside, rather than having lost control, a lead investigator into the deadly crash said. A South Korean newspaper report suggested fatigue was a factor, reports AP.
Giving weight to the theory of pilot error, the American TV network NBC reported Thursday evening that a preliminary analysis of the voice and flightdata recorder showed the pilot mistook a landing beacon on a hilltop 5 kms (3 miles) from the airport for the airport itself, ana came in for landing at that site as if nothing were amiss.
National Transportation Safety Board agents who arrived in Guam early Thursday
cautioned against drawing conclusions too soon about the crash, which killed more than 200 people, saying they would look into a multitude of possible causes — equipment failure, pilot training and fatigue and bad weather, among them.
"It takes about a year to determine the probable cause of an accident." NTSB board member George Black told reporters under a tent set up within sight of the crash.
But Black told NBC that pilot error may have been to blaijie because the pilot appeared to have complete control of the Jet when it plowed into the hill early Wednesday on approach to Guam International Airport.
"Controlled flight into terrain is usually an error on someone's part, and it does have
all the earmarks of controlled flight into terrain," Black said in a telephone interview from Guam.
The NBC report said the pilots were so sure they were Just over the aiiport that they lowered the plane's lading gear, thus deactivating the warning system that sounds when a craft is too close to the ground. Other media reports, however, said the alarm, which barks out the order "Pull up. Pull up." had in fact gone off seconds before the crash.
Korean Air Vice President Shim Yi-taek said there was not enough evidence yet to speculate on the cause of the crash, adding that he was upset an NTSB official had done so publicly.
I will be lodging a com-
plaint to the NTSB. They should not be making these speculations," he said.
The investigation was complicated by widely differing survivor accounts. Some said the plane shook wildly in the moments before the crash and a flight attendant said she saw flames. Others said there was no sign of trouble until impact.
T “still hear the screaming children in my mind and I am still in shock," said passenger Hong Seong, an American businessman. who suffered a collapsed lung in the crash.
At least 28 people survived the crash on this tropical, US-governed Pacific island. The plane was carrying 154 passengers, including 13 Americans, when it went down in a rainstorm.
The South Korean national daily, Chosun Ilbo, reported Thursday that Flight 801"s pilot. Park Yong-chul, 44, wasn't given enough time to rest before the flight. It also said he was not familiar with the rough terrain around the airport.
Without citing a source, the newspaper said ne had flown to Guam Just hours after a flight from Hong Kong. Before that, the paper said, he had flown to and from Australia. That equals about 33 hours of flight time, though the newspaper didn't clarify over what period the flights took place.
Korean Air flight manger Kim Sin-Jung denied the report, but acknowledged that Park, a retired air force major, was assigned to the Seoul-Guam route for the first time July 4 after a three-year hiatus.
"The suggestion that the pilot is less experienced is simply incorrect," the official said.
Shim, the Korean Air vice president, denied that the pilot was fatigued." There are regulations on all this, and we abide by them," he said.
By mid-afternoon Thursday, more than 100 bodies had been recovered from the dense green crash site that was littered with wreckage. It was uncertain whether all the recovered remains could be identified.