Asiana crash shows lessons of pilots trumping technology

July 11, 2013 00:19

As planemakers build ever-safer jets, it's often the split-second decisions by humans at the controls that can make the biggest difference between a smooth landing and a flight that ends in disaster.

The last moments of Asiana Airlines Inc. (020560) Flight 214, which inexplicably slowed on its final approach, underscore the stakes in the cockpit even in aircraft as sophisticated as Boeing Co. (BA)'s 777, according to safety consultants, retired pilots and aviation scholars following the U.S. investigation.

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