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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, July 8, 2013
3A
Official
By Jason Dearen and Joan Lowy
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A fed-
eral safety official said Sunday the
cockpit voice recorder from Asia-
na Flight 214 showed the jetliner
received a warning that it could
stall because it was flying too
slowly and tried to increase its
speed before it crashed.
National Transportation
Safety Board chief Deborah
Hersman said at a news confer-
ence Sunday the recorder also
showed the Boeing 777’s crew
called to abort the landing
about 1.5 seconds before im-
pact.
National Transportation Safe-
ty Board chief Deborah Hersman
said at a briefing on the crash of
the Boeing 777 said the plane was
traveling at speeds well below the
target landing speed of 137 knots
per hour, or 157 mph.
“We’re not talking about a
few knots,” she said.
Hersman also said the air-
craft’s stick shaker — a piece of
safety equipment that warns pi-
lots of an impending stall —
went off moments before the
crash. The normal response to a
stall warning is to increase
speed to recover control.
There was an increase in
speed several seconds before
the crash, she said, basing her
comments on an evaluation of
the cockpit voice recorder and
flight data recorder. They con-
tain hundreds of different types
of information on what was
happening to the plane.
And at 1.5 seconds before
impact, there was a call for an
aborted landing, she said.
Pilots normally try to land at
the target speed, in this case 137
: Asiana flight tried to abort landing
NTSB/AP
This photo, taken Sunday in Washington, shows the flight da-
ta recorder, left, and cockpit voice recorder, right, of the Asia-
na Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco Interna-
tional Airport on Saturday.
knots, plus an additional five
more knots, said Bob Coffman,
an American Airlines captain
who has flown 777s. He said the
briefing raises an important
question: “Why was the plane
going so slow?”
The plane’s Pratt and Whitney
engines were on idle, Hersman
said. But the normal procedure in
the Boeing 777, a wide-body jet,
would be to use the autopilot and
the throttle to provide power to
the engine all the way through to
landing, Coffinan said.
There was no indication in
the discussions between the pi-
lots and the air traffic control-
lers that there were problems
with the aircraft.
Hersman earlier said investi-
gators are looking into what role
the shutdown of a key navigation-
al aid may have played in the
crash.
She said the glide slope — a
ground-based aid that helps pilots
stay on course while landing —
had been shut down since June.
She said pilots were sent a
notice warning that the glide
slope wasn’t available. Hers-
man told CBS’ Face the Nation
that there were many other
navigation tools available to
help pilots land. She says inves-
tigators will be “taking a look at
it all.”
Since the crash, clues have
emerged in witness accounts of
the planes approach and video of
the wreckage, leading one avia-
tion expert to say the aircraft may
have approached the runway too
low and something may have
caught the runway lip — part of a
seawall at the foot of the runway.
San Francisco is one of sev-
eral airports around the coun-
try that border bodies of water
that have walls at the end of
their runways to prevent planes
that overrun a runway from
ending up in the water.
Since the plane was about to
land, its landing gear would have
already been down, said Mike
Barr, a former military pilot and
accident investigator who teaches
aviation safety at the University of
Southern California.
It’s possible the landing gear
or the tail of the plane hit the
seawall, he said. If that hap-
pened, it would effectively slam
the plane into the runway.
Noting that some witnesses
reported hearing the plane’s en-
gines rev up just before the
crash, Barr said that would be
consistent with a pilot who real-
ized at the last minute that the
plane was too low and was in-
creasing power to the engines
to try to increase altitude.
Barr said he could think of
no reason why a plane would
come in to land that low.
“When you heard that explo-
sion, that loud boom and you
saw the black smoke... you just
thought, my god, everybody in
there is gone,” said Ki Siadatan,
who lives a few miles away from
the airport and watched the
plane’s “wobbly” and “a little bit
out of control” approach from
his balcony.
“My initial reaction was I
don’t see how anyone could
have made it,” he said.
Inside the plane, passenger
Vedpal Singh, who had a frac-
tured collarbone and whose
arm was in a sling, was sitting in
the middle of the aircraft with
his family. He said there was no
forewarning from the pilot or
any crew members before the
plane touched down hard and
he heard a loud sound.
‘We knew something was hor-
rible wrong,” said a visibly shaken
Singh. He said the plane went si-
lent before people tried to get out
anyway they could. His 15-year-
old son said luggage tumbled
from the overhead bins.
Passenger Benjamin Levy
said it looked to him that the
plane was flying too low and too
close to the bay as it approached
the runway. Levy, who was sit-
ting in an emergency exit row,
said he felt the pilot try to lift
the jet up before it crashed.
He said he thought the ma-
neuver might have saved some
lives. “Everybody was scream-
ing. I was trying to usher them
out,” he recalled of the first sec-
onds after the landing. “I said:
‘Stay calm, stop screaming, help
each other out, don’t push.1"
Wen Zhang said she could feel
the plane’s tail hit the ground.
Baggage was falling around her,
people were screaming and the
aisle window broke.
Zhang picked up her 4-year-
old son, who had hit the seat in
front of him and broke his leg.
Unhurt, she carried him through
the hole where the bathroom was
and went out onto the tarmac.
Xu Da, a product manager
at an Internet company in
Hangzhou, China, said he was
sitting with his wife and teen-
age son near the back of the
plane. When he felt the plane
hit the ground, he said, oxygen
masks dropped down.
And when he stood up in the
cabin, he could see the tail
where the galley was torn away,
leaving a gaping hole through
which he could see the runway.
After escaping, they watched
the plane catch fire and then
firefighters hose it down. They
suffered some cuts and have
neck and back pain.
“I just feel lucky,” he said.
“We are so lucky we sit beside
the tail and we can leave the
plane in the first place.”
By the time the flames were
out, much of the top of the fuse-
lage had burned away. The tail
section was gone, with pieces of
it scattered across the begin-
ning of the runway. One engine
appeared to have broken away.
The flight originated in
Shanghai, China, and stopped
over in Seoul, South Korea, be-
fore making the nearly U-hour
trip to San Francisco, airport of-
ficials said. The airline said
there were 16 crew members
aboard and 291 passengers.
Thirty of the passengers were
children.
San Francisco Fire Depart-
ment Chief Joanne Hayes-
White said 19 people remain
hospitalized, six of them in crit-
ical condition.
She said at a news confer-
ence outside San Francisco
General Hospital the two 16-
year-old girls who died were
found on either side of the
plane near the “front middle.”
Investigators are determining
whether they were alive or dead
when rescuers reached the
scene.
San Francisco General Hospi-
tal Chief of Surgery Margaret
Knudson said at least two people
injured that were treated there
are paralyzed and two others suf-
fered road rash-type injuries sug-
gesting they were dragged.
Chinese state media identi-
fied the dead as two 16-year-old
girls from China’s eastern Zhe-
jiang province. China Central
Television cited a fax from Asia-
na Airlines to the Jiangshan city
government. They were identi-
fied as Ye Mengyuan and Wang
Iinjia.
From Page 1A
Sales
According to the May 2013
Freeman Auto Report, year-to-
date totals show close to 800
more cars have been sold by
Denton County auto dealerships
during the first five months of
this year, compared to the first
five months of 2012.
Gene Cole, general sales
manager of McNatt Honda,
Toyota and Scion, said sales
were up about 20 percent with
the most popular cars being the
Honda Accord and the Toyota
Camry.
“Gas prices haven’t affected
our sales,” Cole said. ‘We haven’t
seen any gas-price issues in the
last year or so.”
AAA Texas said Wednesday
that although the price of crude
oil is high, above $102 a barrel,
gas prices have continued to go
downward.
The average price of gas in
Texas is $3.34 a gallon, accord-
ing to the AAA Texas pre-Inde-
pendence Day weekend report.
The statewide average dropped
5 cents from one week ago and is
14 cents less than the national
average of $3.48, the association
reported. In Denton, the lowest
gas price on Friday was $3.21 a
gallon, according to GasBuddy
.com.
Mark Eckert, owner of Eckert
Hyundai, said vehicle sales some-
times depend on the vehicles peo-
ple drive and if and when they
want to get rid of them.
“Hyundai vehicles have good
MPG [mile per gallon] ratings,
so when gas goes up, we see ev-
erybody with their big SUVs
coming in to trade their vehi-
cles,” Eckert said. “They are tired
of putting so much [gas] in the
tank, but we don’t see it as much
as when the price is $3 per gal-
lon.”
Although second-quarter
sales have been abit slow at Eck-
ert Hyundai compared to the
first quarter, Eckert said his
dealership is still doing fine.
He said used vehicle sales were
up, while new sales were flat. Hy-
undai did not predict an increase
in car sales this year, he said.
We were a few units off in
May and June,” Eckert said.
“Twenty less new [vehicles] and
10 less in June.
Rick Wick, general sales
manager for Classic Chrysler
Jeep Dodge Mazda in Denton,
also said fuel prices had not af-
fected sales of new and used cars
compared to sales in 2008 and
2009, during the beginnings of
the economic downturn.
“Leasing is up,” he said. “The
economy is only having a posi-
tive effect on car sales.”
The Jeep Wrangler and the
Grand Cherokee are two of the
dealership’s top vehicles, he added
Denny Aldridge, one of the
general managers at James
Wood Auto Park, also credited
vehicle sales to the state of the
economy.
“It’s hard to know what’s going
on in the customer’s mind.” Al-
dridge said. “But I do think the
economy is what’s giving us the 15
percent increases. I think people
are getting more confident It’s
not completely there yet, but con-
fidence is improving.”
GEORGE JOSEPH can be
reached at 940-566-6845.
KARINA RAMIREZ can be
reached at 940-566-6878 and
via Twitter at @KarinaF
Ramirez.
Spouses disagree on definition of cheating
Dear Abby: At what point is
a relationship with a member of
the opposite sex considered
“cheating”? I have recently dis-
covered that my husband was
having a more-than-friendly re-
lationship with a co-worker. He
set up a post office box for her so
she could write to him while she
was away for an extended peri-
od.
I found her letters and read
them. They described how she
missed my husband and
“couldn’t wait to feel” his arms
around her and his lips on hers
again. She said he had shown
her what real true love can be.
She is 12 years younger than he
is.
My husband says they never
had sex, but did kiss on several
occasions, and he enjoyed their
deep, open conversations. Be-
cause my husband is not a big
conversationalist, that has been
very hard for me. The idea that
he had meaningful conversa-
tions with this woman hurts me
more than the physical things
they admit to.
He says it’s not actually
cheating if they never slept to-
gether. I say, with everything he
has admitted to and the fact he
has opened up to her in ways I
have begged him to with me, he
has definitely cheated!
This is the second time in our
16-year marriage this kind of
thing has happened. Obviously,
his definition of cheating is not
the same as mine. I say an emo-
tional affair is almost worse than
a physical one. He sees cheating
as sex only.
Hurt and Lonely
in New England
Dear Hurt And Lonely:
When someone gets a post office
box so that he or she can carry on
a furtive romantic correspon-
dence, it is cheating. When he
kisses and embraces someone in
a romantic fashion, that’s cheat-
ing too. When he confides his
deepest feelings to a woman
other than his wife, what he does
is widen the gulf between them.
On the deepest levels, your
husband has been unfaithful to
you. It appears he has perfected
the “art” of lying to himself in or-
der to justify his behavior. My
heart goes out to you.
Dear Abby: I was seeing a
therapist for several years. I be-
gan going because of abandon-
ment and trust issues. Over time
we became friends outside of
therapy, talking to each other
several times a week. I trusted
her completely. During our ther-
apy sessions she shared her life
and problems with me to the
point that I feel I know as much
about her as she knows about
me.
A couple of months ago, she
suddenly decided that ethics
had been breached and she was
setting new boundaries. She
said there would be no contact
outside our sessions, but during
the sessions she would say how
much she missed me and
thought of me as a daughter, and
she would cry.
Now she has decided that she
can no longer be my therapist.
She has blocked my number and
expects me to respect her de-
mands.
I know you can’t speak for
her, but is this normal behavior
for a mental health therapist? I
no longer trust therapists.
Confused in Texas
Dear Confused: No, it is
not normal behavior; it is highly
inappropriate. Your therapist
appears to have had as many or
more unresolved emotional is-
sues than you did. By ending
your sessions together, she has
done you an enormous favor.
While you may not trust
“therapists,” it may require the
efforts of another one to help
you work through this. When
you go for your initial interview,
be sure to tell the therapist what
was done to you.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also known
as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline
Phillips. Write Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA
90069.
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10 is the easiest day.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Priorities this
year include family, friends and
romance. Balance work with exercise
for vitality. A new direction calls.
Creative work with your hands satis-
fies. Stash nuts for winter, and keep
investments cautious. Assume new
career leadership after the Aries
eclipse. Love and appreciate your
amazing team.
^ ARIES (March 21-April 19) Benefi-
/ cial change occurs. Stay close to
home and master a skill or trick. Then
make time for romance. Concentrate
on serving others and your own
needs get met. Avoid jumping to
conclusions.
£ TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Kick
O it up a notch, and do more good
work. Consider overseas travel
carefully. Avoid going into debt; costs
are higher than expected. Discover a
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stance over symbolism. Offer encour-
agement.
Q GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your
solid determination for excellent,
efficient service reflects well. You end
up with more. Expect the unexpected
from your partner. Good things are
worth the wait. Reach a spiritual high.
Love is all you need, and it's every-
where.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Adapt
to sudden changes. You have
more than expected. New layers of
meaning get revealed. Receive benefi-
cial advice from a distant contact,
and consider a wide variety of op-
tions. Take no financial risks.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Postpone a
commitment and avoid risks or
unpleasantness today. Draw upon
hidden resources. Your luck improves
immensely. You don't have to explain
it. Don't get a loved one stirred up.
Keep love tokens.
£ VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You
O choose the game. Stay out of the
way until you get the hang of it. Make
new contacts. Begin a new personal
effort. List changes you'd like to
make. You're very attractive now.
£ LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Evaluate
O short-term progress. Offer to
help. More study is required. Walk
through the space to get a feel for the
energy. Travel arrangements could
change. Gather as much info as you
can.
Q SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Consider all the angles. Look for
things to sell. New technology helps
you advance. You'll benefit from
being polite, and paying attention.
Some ideas don't seem to work.
Adjust focus. You're surrounded by
love.
QSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
O Details seem extra fun, and that's
good, as there are plenty. Your team-
mates can do what you can't, despite
a disagreement about priorities.
Inspire with your own creativity. With
unstable ground, move faster.
Q CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Advance your career. Get a
problem out in the open. It was right
there all the time! Romance the
situation. Start by finishing an old
project.
Q AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Rise
naturally to the top. Practice with
your tools. Spend carefully for effi-
ciency and value. Earn an unexpected
bonus, but wait until the check clears
to shop. Call if you'll be late.
£ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
O Finish up old business. Weed a
garden, or otherwise enjoy the
outdoors. Your efforts are admired.
Take on new attitudes along with
your new responsibilities. You catch
on immediately, and there's plenty
of encouragement.
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Me 2 ran away with the July 4th
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er in the dust.
According to studio esti-
mates Sunday, the Universal an-
imated sequel took in $82.5 mil-
lion over the weekend and
$142.1miffion across the five-day
holiday window. The Lone
Ranger bombed for the Walt
Disney Co., opening with just
$29.4 million over the weekend,
and a disappointing $48.9 mil-
lion since Wednesday.
“We thought it would appeal
to a broader audience than it
did,” Dave Hollis, head of distri-
bution for Disney, said.
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