Asiana Boeing 777

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  South Korea's Asiana Settles US Court Claims in San Francisco Jet Crash

  South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc has settled compensation claims filed in US courts by 72 people who were passengers on a flight that crashed at San Francisco's main airport in 2013, without disclosing financial terms.

• US Safety Board to Rule on Asiana Crash

  The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convenes on Tuesday to establish why a South Korean jet crashed while landing in San Francisco last year, leaving three dead.

• Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared

  The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth.

• Asiana fined $500,000 for slow aid to crash families

  U.S. regulators fined Asiana Airlines Inc $500,000 on Tuesday for failing to assist the families of passengers on a flight that crashed in San Francisco in July in which three people were killed and more than 180 injured.

• Asiana offers $10,000 to plane crash survivors

  Asiana Airlines said on Sunday it was offering an initial compensation payment worth $10,000 to all surviving passengers on board a plane that crashed in San Francisco last month killing three people.

• Asiana says scrapping plan to sue US TV station for name gaffe

  Asiana Airlines said on Wednesday it has scrapped a plan to sue a U.S. television station that incorrectly reported in a racially offensive manner the names of pilots of the flight that crash-landed in San Francisco this month.

• Asiana Airlines crash: passengers file lawsuit against Boeing

  A group of 83 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight which crash-landed in San Francisco has filed a lawsuit seeking millions from the aircraft's manufacturer Boeing, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

• Well-known hazards seen as likely factors in Asiana crash

  In the seconds before Asiana Airlines Flight 214 slammed into a seawall at San Francisco airport on July 6, pilots realized the plane was flying too low and much too slowly - even though, they told investigators, they had set a control system called an auto-throttle to keep the Boeing 777 at a constant speed.

• Asiana Airlines says to beef up training of pilots shifting to new jets

  Asiana Airlines said on Monday that it would enhance training for pilots seeking to convert to flying new aircraft, part of a series of measures it is undertaking after the fatal crash of an Boeing 777 plane in San Francisco.

• Asiana Airlines to sue US transport authority and channel over bogus pilot names gaffe

  Asiana said Sunday it was planning lawsuits against US transport authorities and a TV station for mistakenly confirming and airing false and offensive names for the pilots behind its fatal crash in San Francisco.

• Pilots of crashed Asiana Airlines jet return to South Korea

  Pilots of the Asiana Airlines passenger jet which crash landed in San Francisco have returned to South Korea after being quizzed by US aviation officials, officials said today.

• US National Transportation Safety Board apologises for gaffe over derogatory Asiana pilot names

  The National Transportation Safety Board apologised on Friday after an intern mistakenly confirmed to a local television station racially offensive fake names for the pilots of an Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco.

• Asiana Airlines crash: Third Chinese schoolgirl dies in San Francisco hospital

  A Chinese girl died in a San Francisco hospital on Friday, becoming the third fatality in the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at the city's airport last Saturday, doctors and Chinese officials said.

• No evidence of mechanical problems in Asiana Airlines crash

  The focus of the probe into Asiana Flight 214 switched squarely to the pilots after investigators found no evidence of mechanical problems, the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said.

• Pilots in Asiana crash relied on automatic equipment for airspeed

  The pilots aboard the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco relied on automatic equipment - an auto-throttle system - to maintain airspeed and did not realize the plane was flying too slowly until it was just 200 feet (60 meters) above the ground, the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.