First, I guess that for any of you that don't already know, I was one of the earlest number of pilots rated on the B777 and retired off that aircraft in late 1997---------

The paralell approachs to SFO ruways 28l and 28r can only be done under visual conditions as they are too close together---instrument paralell approaches the runways will be one mile apart---SFO is only a couple hundrd feet---In SFO on a visual approach you have to keep the other aircraft in sight for separation and it is quite typical that when the lead aircraft starts slowing down that the following aircraft has to make some space by slowing earlier---this creats difficulty for getting lower while slowing airspeed----

On the B777 (and other GLASS cockpit aircraft) with the systems they have, many pilots have turned into passengers and are so far behind the aircraft that they -----------------

In this particular incident, I believe that the auto throttles were turned off or they would have advanced to keep the minimun speed(137kts) in this case----

There is an opticle ollusion at SFO arriving over the water (can't explain it) and if you remember, a Japan Air(I think) landed in the water several years ago--

The news people are doing a lot of talking about terms that they don't understand(I heard one gal say that these pilots had 10,000 miles experience(this trip was probably that long)) when she should of said hours------Lots of the pilots for the Asian airlines are expatriots from other countries and sometimes don't speak the same langauge!!!!!!!!!!!altho the langauge world wide for aviation is english.

I also heard that one of the dead might have been run over by an emergency vehicle and I think thats a better explanation than they fell out of the aircraft when the tail broke off---

I don't have any idea how that fire could have started in that area altho The overhead(above the cabin ceiling is open) and the fire could of spread easily, but I would have expected a fire would be around the engines and wings fuel tanks---------


More will come to light but as you can tell, the CEO is already blaming pilot error even before he left Korea---they always try to blame something other than the airline or equipment/facilties(inop equipment)