Asiana Plane Crash

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  Asiana Faces New Class Action Suit From Passengers in 2013 Plane Crash: Lawyer

  South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc is facing a new class action suit from passengers on a plane that crashed in San Francisco in 2013 that seeks a combined $30 million in damages, a lawyer for the passengers said.

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  Runway Approach 'Not Normal' in Japan Crash: Asiana Airlines

  Asiana Airlines said Thursday a plane accident that injured more than 20 people at a Japanese airport made an abnormal runway approach.

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  27 Injured as Asiana Plane Hits Antenna in Japan Runway Undershoot

  An Asiana Airways plane smashed into a communications antenna as it came in to land at a Japanese airport, footage showed today, injuring 27 people in an accident redolent of the airline's fatal 2013 crash in San Francisco.

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  Asiana Gets 45-Day Ban on San Fransisco Flights Over Last Year Crash

  South Korean officials say they will ban Asiana Airlines from flying to San Francisco for 45 days as punishment for a deadly crash in July last year.

• 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.

• 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.

• ID emerges of third girl to die of San Francisco plane crash

  The name of a girl who died of injuries suffered in the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight recently in San Francisco has emerged.

• 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.

• Pilots union says probe of Asiana crash revealed too much, too fast

  The world's largest pilot union rebuked the federal agency handling the investigation of Saturday's passenger jet crash in San Francisco, saying it had released too much information too quickly, which could lead to wrong conclusions and compromise safety.

• Asiana flight crew saw trouble at 500 feet, US safety board says

  The pilot in charge of landing the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco tried to correct its course when he saw it was off center and too low as it approached the airport runway at an altitude of 500 feet (150 meters), the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.

• Two flight attendants ejected during crash: NTSB

  Two flight attendants in the back of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into a seawall and lost its tail during a crash landing at San Francisco's airport, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.

• Asiana Airlines crash: pilots quizzed during probe

  Investigators probing the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco began interviewing cockpit crew of the Boeing 777 on Monday amid mounting indications that pilot error may have caused the fatal accident.

• Asiana Airlines crash: many paralyzed; suffer head, internal wounds

  Doctors at a San Franscisco hospital said on Sunday the most severely injured from a Asiana Airlines plane crash a day earlier are paralyzed, unconscious or dealing with serious abdominal bleeding.