"Tower, good morning. Asiana 214 on final, seven miles south..."

　　Asiana Flight 214, a Boeing 777, crash landed short of the runway at the San Francisco International Airport in California.

　　Radio Communication: "Everybody calling, stand by..."

　　Three people died and 180 others were hurt.

　　Tower Controller: "United 885, roger, we have emergency vehicles responding."
United Airlines Employee: "Between the runways, right adjacent to the [runway] numbers, we can see about two or three people that are moving and apparently survived."
Controller: "Roger."

　　Airliner Crash
Last August, VOA was the first media organization to report that the crash could be linked to the way pilots treat each other in the cockpit.

　　Usually, when such issues happen, it is a matter of pilots not wishing to question a decision, which they feel to be dangerous, when made by the captain, or senior pilot.

　　But the Asiana crash resulted from a different kind of failure to communicate.

　　The US National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on it in December.

　　Investigators said the pilot making the landing was being trained by a more experienced "Triple-7" pilot, and was afraid to tell his training pilot that he wanted to cancel the landing and try again. This was because Korean culture would not have allowed him to speak up, even though cockpit alarms were sounding, warning that the plane was at too low a speed and not correctly positioned for landing.
Now, Asiana Airlines is changing the way it trains pilots. The company will urge more open discussion among pilots about flying decisions. Pilots will depend less on years working for the company, military service or age.

　　David Kirstein works in aviation regulatory law for Kirstein and Young, a Washington-based law group.

　　"Why would you have two pilots in the airplane if they aren't going to talk to each other?"

　　He also says the new training does not surprise him.

　　"There's probably pressure from US aviation officials, or the NTSB, or their own government. There may be a fall-off in traffic that consumers are worried about if people aren't flying. I mean that's the most motivating factor there is."

　　While many airlines have already put in place "Cockpit Resource Management," the idea of open communication in the cockpit, the head of Asiana Airlines has admitted that many of their pilots work and fly within a strict military order.

　　David Kirstein says other airlines should note the changes at Asiana. He says they also should understand the importance of open communication in the cockpit.

　　I'm Steve Ember.

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