Korean media are spinning a story that the aircraft went hogwild and the pilots are courageous heroes for wrestling it down to the runway just in time to save the lives of more than 300 people on board.
This excerpt from a recent Korea Times article seems to me to contain some glaring inaccuracies (kinda like CNN, come to think of it):
Hersman said that when the plane came to a stop, pilots told passengers to stay seated for 90 seconds while they communicated with the tower as part of a safety procedure.
“What we saw here is that the first slides weren’t opened for about 90 seconds,” she said, hinting that the evacuation process was delayed.
However, her argument was rebuffed by Choi who said the pilots did not delay the evacuation process. “Pilots should communicate with the control tower first. I don’t think that they delayed it,” he said.
They also differ over the activation of the automatic speed control system called the auto-throttle during the crashed Asiana flight.
The NTSB confirmed that the auto-throttle was “armed”, but said that it does not necessarily mean it was activated.
However, the ministry said that “armed” is equal to “on” because there are only two modes in the system ― armed and off.
They also disagree over the paring [sic] and actions of the pilots at the time of the accident.
Lee Jeong-min was the pilot in command, sitting in the right seat and acting as an instructor to Lee Gang-guk, a veteran pilot but still in the process of becoming accustomed to the Boeing 777 was sitting in the left seat controlling the aircraft.
The NTSB has taken issue with the seat positioning of the pilots, arguing that the pilot in command should have been sitting in the left seat.
However, Choi said that as Lee Gang-guk was on a “familiarization flight,” he was customarily for him to take the left seat.
Korea, US clash over Asiana crash