Asiana Airlines Flight 214

Asiana Airlines Flight 214
Wreckage of the aircraft at San Francisco International Airport
Accident
DateJuly 6, 2013 (2013-07-06)
SummaryCrashed on landing due to unstable approach caused by pilot error
Site
Aircraft

HL7742, the aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in 2012
Aircraft typeBoeing 777-28EER
OperatorAsiana Airlines
IATA flight No.OZ214
ICAO flight No.AAR214
Call signASIANA 214
RegistrationHL7742
Flight originIncheon International Airport, Incheon, South Korea
DestinationSan Francisco International Airport, Millbrae, California, United States
Occupants307
Passengers291
Crew16
Fatalities3
Injuries187
Survivors304

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight originating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco International Airport near San Francisco, California, United States that crashed on final approach into Runway 28L of San Francisco International Airport in the United States on the morning of July 6, 2013. The Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight, registered as HL7742, approached too slowly and crashed at an angle into the seawall before the threshold of Runway 28L. The tail, main landing gear, and left engine separated, while the remaining fuselage slid along the runway before coming to a stop and catching fire.

Of the 307 people on board, three were killed; another 187 occupants were injured, 49 of them seriously. Among the seriously injured were four flight attendants who were thrown onto the runway while still strapped in their seats when the tail section broke off after striking the seawall short of the runway. This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 777 since the aircraft type entered service in 1995, and the first fatal crash of a passenger airliner on U.S. soil since the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009.

The investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the accident was caused by the flight crew's mismanagement of the airplane's final approach. Deficiencies in Boeing's documentation of complex flight control systems and in Asiana Airlines' pilot training were also cited as contributory factors.