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So, if I'm in an accident while driving a Korean car then somehow it must be Hyundai's or Kia's fault? Oh yeah, just like when in S. Korea if you get rear-ended it is partially your fault.

Boeing blames pilots for Asiana 777 crash; airline faults software, too
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023272500_boeing777sfcrashxml.html
Boeing on Monday firmly blamed the pilots for last year’s crash of an Asiana Airlines 777 in San Francisco, telling the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the crash “would have been avoided had the flight crew followed procedures.”
Doug Rice, a veteran commercial-airline pilot and a board member of the California Pilots Association, said foreign flight crews often lack manual flying experience.
He believes the Asiana pilots were unable to cope that day with the fact that the instrument-landing equipment was out.
“It wasn’t like it was dangerous,” Rice said. “It was a beautiful day. And they didn’t fly the airplane.
“They didn’t miss their touchdown target by a little bit,” he added. “They missed by a third of a mile.”
In the December NTSB hearing, John Cashman, the test pilot who flew the 777 maiden flight in 1994, defended Boeing’s flight-control logic.
“It goes back to that original philosophy: not changing modes in an autopilot that the pilot doesn’t command,” Cashman said.
He said the pilot has to have the authority,(NOT IN KOREA) should he see oncoming traffic or some other reason to change course, to fully control the airplane.
Asiana mentions in its submission that this precise situation arose during a test flight of a 787 Dreamliner, which has the same flight-control logic.
In that instance, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test pilot questioned the fact that the autothrottle didn’t wake up automatically when the speed dropped.
But an FAA manager at the December hearing testified that after discussions with Boeing “the FAA pilot determined that the fact that the autothrottle did not wake up was not a safety issue.”
Asiana recommends in its submission to the NTSB that Boeing insert more explicit warnings in its flight-crew training manuals about this specific circumstance and also that it should develop stronger alerting features to mitigate any automation “surprise.”
Rice said such steps, rather than changing the logic of Boeing’s flight-control philosophy, is the right response.
“I don’t believe the philosophy needs changed,” said Rice. “We need to make sure the pilots understand the philosophy and they must demonstrate that knowledge during their training.”

And let's not forget ~ or was below Boeing's fault too or is somebody else to blame since Asiana Airlines didn't mean to fail families?
Asiana Airlines fined $500,000 for failing to help families after July crash
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/travel/asiana-plane-crash-fine/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Jongno2bucheon]

The lawyers are in the drivers seat. Not Korean culture. Welcome to the way the US legal system works. No one likes it, and the only ones who can legislate changes are lawyers. That is the unbelievable part about American culture, so helpless to lawyers, big pharma, wall street etc.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/asiana-airlines-president-apologizes-for-crash-that-killed-2/

Btw, Asiana CEO apologized immediately last year. You wont ever see a white male executive do this. Its just not in the white male leadership culture to worry and apologize for things like human feelings, i.e. great recession.

The lawyers took over now. Lets leave it at that for now. I had a bad day.

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