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Into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk, whats your assessment thus far of the experience issue? >> i think 43 hours, which the captain had, is not an unreasonably low amount of experience for the 777. remember, he had over 10,000 hours flying big airplanes, like 747s. thats not unusual. w...

Airplane speeded up. and he didnt do that. >> this morning, ntsb chairman, deborah hersman said the pilots lack of experience landing this plane at this airport was not out of the ordinary. >> its not unusual for pilots to have a first landing coming into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk...