Asiana Airlines Crashes

• Firefighters caused death of Asiana crash victim: official

  One of the victims of this month's Asiana Airlines jet crash in San Francisco survived impact but was killed on the tarmac when she was run over by an emergency vehicle, officials said Friday.

• 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.

• Asiana Airlines says it will sue TV station after pilot name gaffe

  Asiana Airlines said on Monday it will sue a TV station that incorrectly reported racially offensive names of four pilots onboard the flight that crash-landed in early July at San Francisco International Airport.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Chinese teen killed in Asiana crash was hit by fire truck, say cops

  San Francisco police say one of the Chinese victims in the Asiana Airlines crash was struck by a fire truck, although it's not clear whether that killed her.

• 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.

• San Francisco crash: Asiana Airlines pilot delayed evacuation, say investigators

  Federal safety officials say a pilot initially told passengers not to evacuate an Asiana Airlines flight that crash landed in San Francisco.

• 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.

• Watch: eyewitness video of Asiana Airlines crash

  The pilot in charge of landing the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco on July 6, 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 US National Transportation Safety Board has said, according to Reuters.