Aluminium shuffler:
Now, given that so many Yanks lambasted the Asiana crew for being a few feet too low to get away with it, how can so many of the same group defend a crew that landed miles out of position? Just because they were lucky enough not to have caused any deaths does not excuse the serious lack of airmanship in this case. They were luckier, not better.
I lambast both crews. I also lambast the KAL 801 crash at Guam. And, I lambast the KAL 747 that was lost at LAX on a visual flying a base leg at 500 feet, agl, and when turning a panic final didn't roll wings level until the last seconds.
I participated in the KAL 801 hearing. Based on what I saw and heard from KAL management there I was not impressed.
The Asiana crash at SFO was far worse that what the Atlas crew did and what they did was inexcusable.