Asiana Airlines seeks cockpit culture changer after U.S. crash


  • World
  • Monday, 10 Feb 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc is changing its pilot training programme and encouraging its crew to talk more in a bid to change a corporate culture that U.S. investigators said may have been a factor in a crash last year.

A hearing into the July 6 crash that killed three people and injured more than 180 people in San Francisco revealed that one of the pilots said he did not feel he had the authority to abort a low-speed landing as people at a "higher level" had to make that decision.

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