The pilot of the Asiana flight 214 that crash landed in San Francisco on Saturday was alarmed few seconds before by a senior pilot in the cockpit that the plane was flying too low.
Earlier on Saturday, the Boeing 777 crash-landed at the San Francisco airport, killing two passengers and injuring 180.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman, Deborah Hersman, said that the pilot held responsible for the crash was about half-way through his Boeing 777 training but had never before flown Boeing into San Francisco.
BBC reports that the senior pilot in the cockpit realized about 34 seconds prior to impact that the plane was flying at 500ft and at about 134 knots.
According to the report, the senior pilot told the pilot on command to pull back on the stick. The pilot in control pushed the throttles forward to speed up. Later the pilot tried to abort the landing, but it was too late.
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