[00:00.10]From VOA Learning English, this is In The News.
[00:08.18]American investigators this week examined wreckage from the Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed last Saturday at San Francisco airport.
[00:21.20]Officials say two kinds of equipment, the autopilot and auto-throttle, did not appear to have failed.
[00:31.00]American and South Korean officials are working together on the investigation.
[00:38.06]Asiana is Korea's second largest airline after Korean Air.
[00:44.85]Asiana Flight 214 was carrying more than 300 people from Seoul to the United States.
[00:52.99]They included 141 Chinese, 77 Koreans and 61 Americans.
[01:02.48]Two passengers died after the crash.
[01:06.20]More than 180 people were taken to California hospitals for treatment.
[01:13.11]They were injured when the airplane, a Boeing 777, crash-landed.
[01:19.39]Information from the plane's flight data recorder shows that the aircraft was traveling too slowly as it came in for a landing.
[01:30.09]The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off.
[01:40.10]Investigators are also attempting to understand events that led to a 90 second delay in the order for everyone to leave the airplane.
[01:52.23]The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, met with reporters Thursday in San Francisco.
[02:02.33]She said her investigators had questioned six of the 12 flight attendants.
[02:08.81]The other six remained hospitalized.
[02:12.37]Ms. Hersman said investigators would talk with all the flight crew members as they try to learn about the performance of the plane's safety equipment.
[02:25.11]Two flight crew members were injured when emergency escape equipment inflated inside the airplane.
[02:34.20]The equipment is supposed to open up outside the plane so passengers can slide to the ground.
[02:41.94]The air safety official said the manufacturer of the device had offered to cooperate in the investigation.
[02:51.22]At an earlier press conference, the NTSB chairwoman said the pilot at the controls was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777.
[03:05.98]But the head of Asiana Airlines rejected suggestions that the pilot and his co-pilot trainer lacked experience.
[03:16.36]Speaking at his company's headquarters in Seoul, Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo defended the pilots' training.
[03:27.45]American lawmakers are pressing for enactment of new pilot training rules in the United States and around the world.
[03:37.55]Senator Charles Schumer is from New York, where a 2009 plane crash killed 49 people.
[03:46.86]"There is no reason that American passengers should be put at risk by poorly trained pilots in other countries."
[03:54.77]Earlier this week, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye sent a letter of regret to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the Asiana Airlines crash.
[04:06.96]She also expressed sympathy to the families of two Chinese students who died.
[04:14.25]The two 16-year-old girls were the only deaths.
[04:19.38]They were found outside the plane, which caught fire as it slid down the runway.
[04:26.14]Investigators say one of the victims may have been struck by an emergency vehicle.
[04:32.94]Some survivors of the crash have criticized the lack of emergency medical transport.
[04:39.96]Fire trucks arrived within a minute of the crash but ambulances were delayed in reaching all the injured.
[04:48.67]And that's In the News from VOA Learning English.
[04:54.13]I'm Steve Ember.