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Seat, the relief first officer who was sitting in the jump seat, and the relief captain who was sitting in the cabin. so first i'm going to talk about the pilot flying. the pilot in the left seat. he reported to our investigators that he had 9700 hours of total flight time. he had about 5,000 hours as pilot in command. this was his initial operating experience in the 777. to complete initial operating experience for asiana, he's required to have 20 flights and 60 flight hours. he had ten legs -- he had completed ten legs. and about 35 hours flying the

And the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown together. the relief first officer who was sitting in the jump seat reported to our investigators that he had 4,600 hours flight time. he estimated that he had 900 to 1,000 hours flying a 777. he flew f-5s and f-16s in the korean air force. he had flown to san francisco five or six times as the pilot monitoring. the fourth pilot who was serving as the relief captain was not in the cockpit for the approach. as i mentioned, he was seated in the cabin. his interview is currently underway.

The instructor pilot, this is the pilot who is seated in the right seat. he's also a captain. he reported to our investigators that his total flight time is 13,000 hours. he estimated he had about 3,000 hours in the 777. his total pilot in command time was about 10,000 hours. he had been in the korean air force for ten years. he reported that this was his first trip as an instructor pilot. the instructor pilot stated that he was the pilot in command. he was sitting in the right seat. this was the first time that he

Experience on this plane. and as you said yesterday, you didn't think that should play a role in what happened. you said, well, if he'd flown a lot of other planes, he should be able to 0 by seniority switch to 777. he was sitting next to an instructor pilot. it was a third pilot also in the jump seat, in the cockpit. did all three of them miss the signs then? >> well, you know, being a longtime pilot, you're going to typically transfer from airplane to airplane over time. and the route that he took, he went to ground school, he went to simulator training. he followed all the necessary protoco...

Airplane. that was an instructor captain who had over 3,000 hours on the triple 7 and was a very experienced captain. what was happening -- this happens throughout all of the airlines to maintain the experience levels is that this relatively junior pilot would have been give even and opportunity to make -- would have been given an opportunity to make the approach. it should have been done in a measures way with the instructor pilot overlooking him at all times. gregg: they say the plane was too low and too slow and asked to try again. >> it wasn't just slow by a few miles an hour, it was suffi...