韓亞航空：出事飛機駕駛員正在接受波音777駕駛培訓

Asiana Airlines says the pilot of a plane that crashed Saturday at San Francisco airport was still in training flying a Boeing 777, and was trying to land that type of aircraft at the site for the first time.

The South Korea-based airline said Monday the pilot had 43 hours of experience in the 777, and more than 9,000 hours of flight time overall. A pilot more experienced with the aircraft was acting as a trainer and co-pilot on the flight.

U.S. investigators say it is too early to say what caused the crash, but that the plane was flying "significantly below" its target speed as it approached the runway and that the pilot tried to abort the landing.

National Transportation Safety Board chair Deborah Hersman said Sunday the verbal "abort" request came just 1.5 seconds before impact -- too late to avoid the crash that killed two people and injured dozens more.韓亞航空公司說，星期六在舊金山機場發生墜機事故的飛機駕駛員正在接受駕駛波音777客機的培訓，並且是第一次嘗試在舊金山機場降落。

這家韓國的航空公司星期一說，這名駕駛員有43個小時駕駛波音777客機的經驗和總共超過9000小時的飛行經驗。一名駕駛這種機型經驗豐富的飛行員作爲教官和客機的副駕駛。

美國調查人員說，現在就確定事故發生的原因還爲時太早，不過，這駕出事客機在接近跑道時飛行速度“遠遠低於”標準速度，飛行員曾試圖停止着陸。

美國國家交通安全委員會主席黛博拉•赫斯曼星期天說， “停止”的口頭要求是在出事前1.5秒的時候發出的，但爲時過晚，來不及避免導致兩人死亡、數十人受傷的事故。