July 7, 2013.

San Francisco Plane Crash: What Went Wrong

April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him. first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water. audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middleaged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms around him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself. all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a childs arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didn't oughter of showed it not in front of the kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody care what the proles say typical prole reaction they never----

The Asiana Airlines 020560.SE -0.58% pilots whose Boeing BA +1.27%  777crashed Satureday while landing at San Francisco International Airport were following a routine visual approach and didn't radio any onboard problems or declare an emergency before impact, according to preliminary reports.

Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down. It was, he now realized because of this other incident that he had suddenly decided to come home and begin the diary today.

Investigators will now focus on why the twin-engine jetliner----arriving on an overnight flight from Seoul and descending in good weather----slammed down hard on a portion of the airport hundreds of feet before the runway's normal touchdown point, according to industry and U.S. government safety experts. At the beginning, a probe is likely to delve into everything from possible engine problems to pilot mistakes to mechanical issues.

It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything was so nebulous could be said to happen.

One issue likely to come under early review is the overall experience and hand-flying skills on the pilots, who couldn't rely on an instrument-landing system as a backstop. Those navigation devices for the runway weren't operating Saturday, due to work under way to improve the strip. Since late June, all pilots landing at SFO----the moniker often used for the busy hub airport----have been warned that the approach aids are temporarily turned off.