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First, according to investigators the pilot was in training to buy a boeing 777. second, the instructor at his side had never served in that role before. third, the jets auto throttle. was it malfunctioning. miguel marguez has more live from san francisco. good morning, miguel. >> reporter: chris, youre exactly right, those three big questions. were getting a much better idea of how this crash took place. the bulk of the investigation on the ground is now done. investigators saying it was the la...

Performance. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: investigators gathering perhaps the most crucial evidence in their investigation. interviews with the pilots of the plane. >> all of the crew members have been very cooperative and forthright with our team. >> reporter: its clear the plane was flying too slowly. three seconds before the crash, it was coming in another 103 knots. it needed to be at 137 knots to land safely. why was the plane so slow in initial reviews of the data recorders dont appear to s...

The flight crew federal investigators say the pilots were more concerned with their low approach than their dangerously low air speed. they were relying on the planes cruise control to maintain the speed. did that auto throttle malfunction? >> there were three pilots in the cockpit during the landing. and the lead instructor was overseeing the landing. five days later the planes wreckage is still scattered along the runway. a large piece of the tail section wound up in san francisco bay. >> when...

Monitor. we have a flying pilot, and we have two other pilots that are in the cockpit, and they have a monitoring function. one of the very critical things that needs to be monitored on an approach to the landing is speed. and so we need to understand what was going on in the cockpit and also what was going on with the aircraft. jenna: claudia cowan is live in san francisco with more on this story. whats the latest you can tell us about the pilots? >> reporter: well, jenna, whats still unclear h...

>> lets turn to serious news here. we have new details on what happened inside the cockpit of asiana flight 214 moments before it crashed under a san francisco runway. federal investigators say the pilots thought they set the planes auto throttle when they came in for landing. nbcs tom costello reports. >> reporter: new pictures of the crash scene in san francisco. the top priority for investigators has been to interview all four pilots who were on board flight 214, including the veteran captain...

Automatic functions of the auto throttle. >> wouldnt you notice it in the copilot seat? the copilot was the one bringing this in. if you were the pilot in the other seat, wouldnt you think this is a little slow? >> well, yes. my understanding, the pilot, cap tape in the left seat was the up with in training. the pilot in the right seat is a check airman. what i have read and heard throughout the past couple of days. dont know this as a fact. but the talk about the pilot only have 43 -- the capta...

And now what happened just moments before the crash? new details tonight from the ntsb. federal investigators interviewed the asiana flight crew today and those interviews included the pilot who was actually physically it at the controls when flight 214 hit the sea wall at san franciscos airport. according to national transportation safety boards chairwoman deborah hersman, the flying pilot was a veteran. he it did have about 10,000 hours of flight time but he was still in their initial operatin...

Automatic functions of the auto throttle. >> wouldnt you notice it in the copilot seat? the copilot was the one bringing this in. if you were the pilot in the other seat, wouldnt you think this is a little slow? >> well, yes. my understanding, the pilot, cap tape in the left seat was the up with in training. the pilot in the right seat is a check airman. what i have read and heard throughout the past couple of days. dont know this as a fact. but the talk about the pilot only have 43 -- the capta...

The airplane was configured and see if the automation was being used by the crew. typically the pilots will set the airplane up with an auto throttle and in anticipation of the speed the automated system tries to maintain it. the crew didnt monitor and notice it until the last minute. that puts them behind the power curve. by the time they try to take the corrective action and push the power to full power for the go around by the time the engines started to spool up the airplane was settling to ...

Terms of this report. >> yes, we now know, drew, what actually happened and the sequence of events and how it played out. im going to show you exactly. flight 447 was in the air and moving across. well, its some particularly coal weather. the tubes at the front of the plane suddenly started to give incorrect readings, they iced up. that led to the disengagement of the auto pilot and auto throttle, and various other systems in the cockpit. what happened then is that the nose started to rise, and ...