The first images from inside the stricken Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday were released today as it emerged the pilot was on his maiden training flight and had only 43 hours experience at the controls of a Boeing 777.

The chilling photographs - published by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board - show seats slammed out of their rivets and oxygen masks dangling from the overhead compartments, giving some indication of the terror that the 307 passengers and crew experienced as the plane's botched landing killed two and injured 181 people.

It comes as the flight recorder or black box from the doomed aircraft revealed that the craft was 'significantly below' its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before it hit a seawall, severing the tail section of the plane and almost flipping onto one side.

'He was training,' a spokeswoman for Asiana Airlines, Lee Hyomin, told Reuters of pilot Lee Kang-Kook.

'Even a veteran gets training,' the airlines spokeswoman said. 'He has a lot of experience and previously had flown to San Francisco on different planes, including the B747 ... and was assisted by another pilot who has more experience with the 777.'
His co-pilot, Lee Jeong-Min had 3,200 hours of flying experience aboard a 777 and was in the cockpit with Kang-Kook when the disaster struck.

The black box aboard the Boeing 777 jetliner set out three crucial moments that show the plane was approaching the runway too slowly and that the pilots were trying to correct the problem.

Information collected from the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated that there were no signs of trouble until seven seconds before impact, when the crew tried to accelerate, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said at a news conference at the airport.


National Transportation Safety Board officials said today that the jetliner, which was carrying 291 passengers, was flying 'significantly' slower than the 137 knots that is ideal for jetliners preparing to land in San Francisco.




But in the aftermath of the deadly crash it has been revealed that the tower received one solitary message from the cockpit that said, 'Hello, hello. I have trouble.'

'214 heavy, emergency vehicles are responding. Emergency vehicles are responding,' responded the tower according to NBC News.
hello. I have trouble'

- Audio from cockpit of Flight 214 reveals terrifying moments after deadly crash

'Okay, I cannot...' the pilot starts to say, before his voice becomes unintelligible.

It comes as dramatic amateur video footage that shows the terrifying moment that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed onto the runway at San Francisco airport emerged.

The crash killed two teenage Chinese students and injured more than 180 people, at least two dozen of them seriously, local officials said.



















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in Nigeria the black box will disappear

shugacaneman: in Nigeria the black box will disappear

Tell that to Diana and Sosoliso

Lucky survivors

fittty: Lucky survivors

if it was 9ja...the number of casualties will definitely be different

I can't even imagine what the passengers must have gone through moments before the crash. If only i could travel without flying