NTSB went to South Korea as part of Asiana Airlines crash inquiry

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Firefighters, lower center, stand by a tarpaulin sheet covering the body of a Chinese teen struck by a firetruck during the emergency response to the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Ye Mengyuan, 16, was still alive when a firetruck ran over her, the San Mateo County coroner said Friday. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

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The wrecked fuselage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 sits in a storage area at San Francisco International Airport. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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Burned seats are visible in the wrecked fuselage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as it sits in a storage area at San Francisco International Airport. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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The wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 is moved off-site to a secure area away from the runway. (John G. Mabanglo / EPA)

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The engines and tail section from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 sit in a storage area at San Francisco International Airport. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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This combination of photos shows Asiana Airlines Flight 214 just moments after crashing at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on Saturday. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul. (Dawn Siadatan / Associated Press)

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Asiana Airlines Flight 214 just moments after crashing at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. (Dawn Siadatan / Associated Press)

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A passenger of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco is pushed on a stretcher after arriving at Incheon Airport, west of Seoul on Monday. (Kim Hong-Ji / AFP/Getty Images)

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The parents of Wang Lin Jia, one of two teens killed on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 react after hearing news of their daughter’s death. (AFP / Getty Images)

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The Boeing 777 aircraft lies burned on the runway after it crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport. (Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

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Passengers from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 are treated at San Francisco General Hospital. (John Green / Associated Press)

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, had been scheduled to be on the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, but switched flights at the last moment. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

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Lee Choon-Hee, center, whose daughter sustained injuries as a passenger on Asiana Airlines Flight 214, arrives at Asiana Airlines’ head office in Seoul, South Korea. The Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety as flames tore through the plane (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

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China Airlines passengers who were diverted to LAX from San Francisco International Airport after the plane crash wait for buses to take them to hotels. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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China Airlines employees work to coordinate buses to hotels for passengers diverted to LAX from San Francisco International Airport. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Investigators pass the detached tail and landing gear of Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)

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The charred wreckage of the Asiana Airlines flight from South Korea lies at the San Francisco International Airport after it crashed during landing. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

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Fire crews were on the scene after an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport. (John Green / McClatchy-Tribune )

By Ari Bloomekatz

Oct. 25, 2013 10:45 AM PT

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National Transportation Safety Board officials have traveled to South Korea as part of an investigation into the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at San Francisco International Airport, in which three people died and more than 180 others were injured.

The investigators interviewed managers and training personnel and “observed Asiana procedures in a simulator and an exemplar aircraft,” according to a NTSB announcement Friday.

Investigators in Korea also combed through records from the airplane involved in the accident.

The NTSB on Friday also announced that a two-day investigative hearing on the crash will be held Dec. 10 and 11 in Washington, D.C.

The hearing will focus on “pilot awareness in highly automated aircraft, emergency response, and cabin safety,” according to the NTSB.

Because of the government shutdown earlier this month, the NTSB said the hearing had been delayed from November to December.

On July 6, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 clipped a seawall and slammed into a runway while landing at San Francisco International Airport. Three teenage girls were killed. One of them was struck by an emergency response vehicle on the runway.

Also included in the NTSB update was an examination of the evacuation slide or raft systems at a manufacturing plant in New Jersey. The Survival Factors Group had also re-examined the wreckage.

Investigators and others also met in Seattle “to examine the recorded flight data and compare it to the expected airplane systems operation.”

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