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The two chinese girls that died at the scene of the crash was hit by a fire truck. is not known yet if that was the cause of her death, though. joining me now is jay rollins. thanks for being with me, jay. >> good morning, betty. >> asiana representatives refuse to blame pilot error. the associated press says this. the association indicates that the pilots fail to realize until too late that the aircraft was too low and flying too low. nothing disclosed by the national transportation safety boar...

My -- >> and yet a camera on his head the entire way. >> good thing he was equipped with that go-pro on his head for just this occasion >> was it really on the bumper? >> is that three -- are we at three? >> well see how many we can come up with today. >> conspiracies come in threes. coming up on "new day." were learning more about the pilot of asiana flight 214, and he didnt have as much experience as originally thought flying the boeing 777s and his instructor, that was his first time on the...

♪ ♪ hello, good morning kate bolduans theme song youre hearing right there. welcome back to "new day" this tuesday, july 9th. im chris cuomo. >> goond morning, im kate bolduan. straight to michaela pereira on the top stories. >> the ntsb say it is too early to say a pilot error caused asiana flight to crash at the san francisco international airport. the pilots lack of experience at the controls of the boeing 777 will be a factor in the investigation. also says the plane was flying much sl...

Turns as they go down the line but right now, clearly all the focus is on the performance of the crew and investigators cant say pilot error. but thats in essence what people are looking at. but you never know, i mean, is there some automatic system? they did disengage the all the owe pilot about 1:20 out. there may be other instruments assisting. could be some instruments off. you never know. theyre talking to the crew today. that should clear up a lot of things for them. >> the other thing id ...

Stall. >> heres another $64,000 question, this pilot, though he is being accused of being inexperienced, had other ways of being experienced, 10,000 hours on the boeing 747. on the 777 he was still training but this was his ninth training flight, 11 flights short of getting a full license on that aircraft. this guy is not inexperienced enough surely to not realize hes traveling so much slower than he should have been. and hes got another very experienced pilot next to him. it does cry out for wh...

You can see emergency chutes opening up, passengers running from the burning plane and first responders arriving to help. investigators are combing through the wreckage today trying to determine if pilot error or maybe mechanical failure could have caused the jumbo jet to crash just moments before landing. miguel marquez is kicking off team coverage in san francisco, good morning, miguel. >> reporter: good morning, chris. we know the ntsb, the national transportation safety board is speaking to ...

They talked to each other in korean. have you been able to understand in the black box what they were saying to each other? >> we have convened a work group to go through the cockpit voice recorder tape, which is actually two hours long. we have both english and korean speakers on that group. this is a normal process for foreign operations. we would expect them to communicate in english with air traffic control, but probably some of the dialogue in the cockpit would be in their native language. ...

Segment tonight, the terrible air crash in san francisco two killed and 200 others injured after asiana flight from south korea crash landed at the san francisco airport. right now it looks like pilot error as the korean based airline had a pilot with scant experience on the 777 in command of the aircraft. joining us now from san francisco the chairman of the national transportation safety board debra hersman. i know you are investigating and you have got to be careful about what you say or avia...

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...

>> joining me now, pilot and aviation lawyer arthur walt. arthur, thanks for being here. i dont remember a case like this of such catastrophic consequences, where on the tip of everybodys tongue, even if theyre not saying it, seem to be the words, "pilot error." at this early stage, is that your assessment? >> yes, theres no question about that. this airplane made an unstabilized approach to the airport under beautiful weather conditions. there was no reason for it not to have been stabilized. a...