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. Two flight crew members were injured when emergency escape equipment inflated inside the airplane.
The equipment is supposed to open up outside the plane so passengers can slide to the ground. The air safety official said the manufacturer of the device had offered to cooperate in the investigation.
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.
But the head of Asiana Airlines rejected suggestions that the pilot and his co-pilot trainer lacked experience.
Speaking at his company's headquarters in Seoul, Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo defended the pilots' training.
American lawmakers are pressing for enactment of new pilot training rules in the United States and around the world. Senator Charles Schumer is from New York, where a 2009 plane crash killed 49 people.
“There is no reason that American passengers should be put at risk by poorly trained pilots in other countries.”
Earlier this week, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye sent a letter of regret to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the Asiana Airlines crash. She also expressed sympathy to the families of two Chinese students who died. The two 16-year-old girls were the only deaths. They were found outside the plane, which caught fire as it slid down the runway. Investigators say one of the victims may have been struck by an emergency vehicle.
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