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WASHINGTON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. federal transportation authorities are still in the initial stages of their investigation1 into Saturday's deadly crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 commercial plane at San Francisco International Airport, an official said Sunday.
Deborah Hersman, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said the investigators2 have already talked to law enforcement officials who spoke3 to the pilots Saturday night and hope to interview the pilots of the aircraft in the coming days.
"It's really important to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together, to not just understand what happened, but understand why it happened so we can prevent accidents like this from occurring in the future," Hersman said in an interview aired on CNN's "State of the Union."
She said the investigators would have to corroborate4 "a lot of information," including the radar5 data, the air traffic control information, and the flight data recorder parameters6.
Two Chinese nationals were confirmed killed and more than 180 others injured after the Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed in landing Saturday. The Boeing 777-200 aircraft carried 16 crew members and 291 passengers, including 141 Chinese, 77 citizens from the Republic of Korea and 61 Americans.
According to Hersman, the black boxes of the crashed aircraft -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder -- have been sent back to the federal agency's headquarters in Washington D.C. for lab work.
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1 investigation | |
n.调查,调查研究 | |
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n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 ) | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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v.支持,证实,确定 | |
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5 radar | |
n.雷达,无线电探测器 | |
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6 parameters | |
因素,特征; 界限; (限定性的)因素( parameter的名词复数 ); 参量; 参项; 决定因素 | |
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