San Francisco plane crash 'caused by complex flight controls'

Probe finds that pilots did not 'fully understand' flight systems of their Boeing 777

Asiana Airlines flight 214
(Image credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

An inquiry into the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines flight 214, which killed three people and injured almost 200 at San Francisco airport last year, has blamed the complexity of the Boeing 777 cockpit controls.

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