re: #20 goddamnedfrank

It might be CYA, or it might be a genuine fact. They’ll investigate the claim thoroughly, though the long range videos shot as the plane landed don’t appear to show any kind of reflections or anything out of the ordinary occurring in the cockpit area prior to landing.

They’ll also look at whether the throttle settings were adjusted incorrectly or whether there was a malfunction in the throttle control.

What we know so far seems to indicate pilot error or errors that led to the plane being too low and too slow resulting in the plane hitting the seawall short of the runway.

What we also know doesn’t seem to indicate that Korean culture was to blame (something CNN was quick to report on, even though Korean airlines have had a pretty good safety record up to the current incident after a spate of problems a couple decades ago).