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From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. |
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American investigators this week examined wreckage from the Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed last Saturday at San Francisco airport. |
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Officials say two kinds of equipment, the autopilot and auto-throttle, did not appear to have failed. |
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American and South Korean officials are working together on the investigation. |
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Asiana is Korea's second largest airline after Korean Air. |
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Asiana Flight 214 was carrying more than 300 people from Seoul to the United States. |
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They included 141 Chinese, 77 Koreans and 61 Americans. |
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Two passengers died after the crash. |
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More than 180 people were taken to California hospitals for treatment. |
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They were injured when the airplane, a Boeing 777, crash-landed. |
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Information from the plane's flight data recorder shows that the aircraft was traveling too slowly as it came in for a landing. |
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The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off. |
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Investigators are also attempting to understand events that led to a 90 second delay in the order for everyone to leave the airplane. |
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The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, met with reporters Thursday in San Francisco. |
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She said her investigators had questioned six of the 12 flight attendants. |
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The other six remained hospitalized. |
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Ms. Hersman said investigators would talk with all the flight crew members as they try to learn about the performance of the plane's safety equipment. |
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Two flight crew members were injured when emergency escape equipment inflated inside the airplane. |
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The equipment is supposed to open up outside the plane so passengers can slide to the ground. |
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The air safety official said the manufacturer of the device had offered to cooperate in the investigation. |
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At an earlier press conference, the NTSB chairwoman said the pilot at the controls was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777. |
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But the head of Asiana Airlines rejected suggestions that the pilot and his co-pilot trainer lacked experience. |
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Speaking at his company's headquarters in Seoul, Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo defended the pilots' training. |
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American lawmakers are pressing for enactment of new pilot training rules in the United States and around the world. |
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Senator Charles Schumer is from New York, where a 2009 plane crash killed 49 people. |
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"There is no reason that American passengers should be put at risk by poorly trained pilots in other countries." |
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Earlier this week, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye sent a letter of regret to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the Asiana Airlines crash. |
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She also expressed sympathy to the families of two Chinese students who died. |
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The two 16-year-old girls were the only deaths. |
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They were found outside the plane, which caught fire as it slid down the runway. |
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Investigators say one of the victims may have been struck by an emergency vehicle. |
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Some survivors of the crash have criticized the lack of emergency medical transport. |
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Fire trucks arrived within a minute of the crash but ambulances were delayed in reaching all the injured. |
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And that's In the News from VOA Learning English. |
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I'm Steve Ember. |