Nearly a year after Asiana Airlines Flight 214 slammed into a seawall at San Francisco International Airport, safety officials are saying that mismanagement of the airplane’s descent by the flight crew caused the crash that injured 180 and killed two.

At a National Transportation Safety Board hearing today in Washington, DC, acting chairman Christopher Hart read the Board's findings, saying that the flight crew’s incomplete understanding of the plane’s autothrottle systems, and an over-reliance on automated systems in landing, poor training, miscommunication and fatigue were contributing factors to the problems in the Boeing 777's descent on July 6, 2013.

You can watch a raw video overview of the report below, and read a summary of the report here.

In today's hearing, the board recommended better training in automated systems for pilots, a review of Boeing's automated systems for intuitiveness and potential new safety features, and for the airline to encourage pilots to manually land planes for better alertness and reaction time.

“Although the pilot flying was experienced," NTSB operations group chairman Roger Cox said, "he lacked critical manual flying skills.”

In an NTSB fact-finding hearing in December, pilot Lee Kang Kuk said that he was being trained in flying Boeing 777s at the time of the crash. He said that there was confusion over whether he or instructor Lee Jung Min should have called off the landing when it was determined the plane was flying too low and slow.

As part of the hearing, the NTSB also released the below animation of how they believe the crash occurred.

In today's hearing, the death of 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, who was run over by two fire trucks in front of the plane’s left wing, was also under discussion.

After an investigation, the San Mateo County coroner’s office said that Yuan was killed by injuries caused by the fire trucks, not by the crash.

There was “a short window of opportunity for firefighters to perform triage and verify visual assessments" on Yuan, NTSB investigator Jason Fedok said, but that firefighters "did not do so," part of “numerous problems with communication during the emergency response.”

Fedok said that Yuan and another 16-year-old girl who died in the crash were not wearing seat belts during the landing and might have survived, otherwise.

The third girl who died was struck in the head by a door that was torn from its frame by the impact of the crash, and died of those injuries six days following the crash.

In a statement sent by the San Francisco Fire Department Tuesday afternoon, Chief Joanne Hayes‐White says that the SFFD respects the NTSB's "analysis of the evidence and the recommendations that they have put forth as it pertains to emergency medical and Airport Rescue & Firefighting (ARRF) response and training."

"I remain extremely proud of all of the first responders involved with the incident," Hayes‐White said. "They rescued passengers from a burning plane, suppressed an aircraft fire and triaged, treated and transported injured passengers involved in the crash."

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