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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 that's proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, that's important. >> arthur walk, what's 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. that's not unusual. what i'm troubled by more than anything else is the lack of what i'll call cockpit resource manag...

Airplane speeded up. and he didn't do that. >> this morning, ntsb chairman, deborah hersman said the pilot's lack of experience landing this plane at this airport was not out of the ordinary. >> it's 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 that's proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, that's important. >> arthur walk, what's your assessment thus far of the experience issue? >> i think 43 hours, which the capta...