The flight data recorder (FDR) recovered from the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that crash landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday indicates that the airplane slowed to 103 knots—or 34 knots below the airspeed identified as appropriate for landing—some three seconds before its tail section hit the sea wall at the threshold of Runway 28L, according to National Transportation Safety Board chairman Deborah Hersman. While issuing her second formal media briefing on the crash on Monday in San Francisco, Hersman also confirmed reports that one of the captains hadn’t yet earned his type rating in the Boeing 777 and that the hours he spent flying the airplane from Seoul accounted for some of what she called “initial operating experience” in that particular model. She did describe the pilot as experienced in other types, however. In all, four pilots worked the flight.
