Asina Airlines Pilot: Lee Gang-Guk Was on His 9th Training Flight in the Boeing 777 That Crashed in San Francisco (Video)
Lee Gang-guk, the pilot at the controls of an Asiana plane leaving from Seoul, South Korea which crash landed in San Francisco on Saturday, was reportedly getting on-the-job training, the carrier's CEO revealed Monday,. CEO Yoon Young-Doo told reporters Lee Gang-Guk "was undergoing an OJT (on-the-job training) flight in order to gain experience in order to fly a new type of airplane. For this OJT flight, an experienced pilot with more than 10,000 hours of flight experience was on-board as an instructing pilot, and took all responsibility regarding flight."