Pilots of the Doomed Flight of Asiana Requested Evacuation Delay
As Chairman of National Transportation Safety Board explained on Wednesday, after the stop of an uncontrollable Boeing 777 of Asiana, two attendants went to the cockpit to ask three pilots for solutions. They said that they were communicating with the control tower and requested them to postpone the evacuation.
Deborah A. P. Hersman said, the evacuation did not start until an attendant told people in front of him the breakout of fire outside. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the "survival factors" they mentioned as much as possible through this air crash. Two passengers died in this accident.
According to Hersman, there were two emergency slides of two exits opened in cabin which trapped an attendant. One slide is at the right front cabin door (which is used to transport food supply) and the other is at the emergency exit on the right side of fuselage. At that time, the fire was spreading from the burning right engine to the whole fuselage and conditions even were getting worse. These two attendants had already rescued but were both injured by the slides.
Moreover , there exits a confusing detail. The truly flying pilot is an experienced commander who had flied the 777 for a short period. In addition, it was the first time that he had landed the plane in San Francisco. It was reported that he told the Korean investigators that at the height of about 500 inches (about 152 meters) his eyes were hurt by a strong light that he could see nothing at a time
"We are really not sure what the light is", explained Hersman in the press conference. She added that the videotape showed that evacuation began after the flight had stopped for one and a half minutes. Pilots' decisions will be surely criticized, but, she said, people in cockpit were unable to see the condition behind the plain. After all at that moment, the plain's tail had been broken off and the engine was damaged. /Zhang Yan
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