The security agency in the U.S. Transportation, The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) blamed the pilots of Flight 214 of Asiana Airlines of the tragic plane crash on July 6 in San Francisco, according to a report released Today.
The plane, a Boeing 777 Asiana South Korean company, slammed into the runway at San Francisco International Airport after hitting an embankment during the landing approach.
Three people died as a result of the incident and another 49 were seriously injured, according to the NTSB that part of said poor pilot was what triggered the event also contributed to the complexity of navigation systems.
According to research, the crew did not adequately supervise the maneuver downhill.
"In response to excessive altitude, the captain selected an inappropriate mode autopilot and took other actions that unwittingly caused the aircraft to stop the air velocity control," the report found.
As a result, the aircraft lost too much height and when the pilots realized it was too late.
"In this accident, the crew relied too heavily on automated systems, without fully understanding how they work," said NTSB chairman, Christopher A. Hart, adding that "even in a highly automated aircraft, the human has to be the boss. "
NTSB acknowledged the complexity of technical systems and recognized that they were a factor that contributed to the event occurred.
On 1 April, Asiana Airlines issued its own conclusions about what happened, and agreed commander report an error as a trigger of the accident, but added that there were defects in the autopilot system.
After today's resolution, Asiana welcomed the NTSB admitted that "many factors" as the cause of the crash.
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