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A passenger who was in the Asiana Airlines crash was brought back to Incheon, South Korea on Monday. The pilot of the crashed Asiana plane at San Francisco airport was still “in training” for the Boeing 777 when he attempted to land the aircraft under supervision on Saturday, the South Korean airline said.

The pilot of the flight that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday was on his first long-distance training run with the Boeing 777 jet, officials said Sunday.

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For the first time, photos released by the NTSB show the interior of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 after the wreck that killed two teenage girls traveling to California from China.

Pilot Lee Kang-kook was on his “maiden flight” with the wide-bodied Asiana Airlines plane and desperately tried to abort the ill-fated landing in San Francisco, investigators and airline officials said.

“He was training,” a spokeswoman for Asiana Airlines told Reuters.

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An interior view of Asiana Flight 214 during their first site assessment by the NTSB in San Francisco shows some of the damage. Officials are combing through the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 looking for clues about why the jet crashed.

Lee Kang-kook only had just a total 43 hours at the controls of the 777 prior to Saturday’s tragedy, CNN reported.

“Even a veteran gets training (for a new jet),” the airlines spokeswoman said. “He has a lot of experience and previously had flown to San Francisco on different planes, including the B747 … and was assisted by another pilot who has more experience with the 777.”

The co-pilot, Lee Jeong-min, had 3,220 hours of experience flying the 777 and was helping Lee Kang-kook with the landing when disaster struck.

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Ye Mengyuan, left, and Wang Linjia, right, were killed Saturday in the Flight 214 crash in San Francisco. Here, they posed for photos with schoolmates in their classroom in Jiangshan city in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, an affluent coastal province in eastern China.

In the final seconds of the doomed flight, the pilots realized they were flying too slowly and desperately tried to abort their landing, investigators said.

But a mere second and a half after their frantic request to air-traffic controllers, dramatic new video shows the Asiana flight packed with 307 people dragging its tail in San Francisco Bay before colliding with a sea wall, sending the jet tumbling in a cloud of dirt.

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An Asiana flight 214 passenger was surrounded by media on Monday after arriving back in Korea at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul.

National Transportation Safety Board officials Sunday detailed the chilling seconds of chaos in the cockpit.

The fiery crash left two Chinese schoolgirls dead, two others paralyzed and a number of passengers with road-rash injuries from the 2,000-foot skid on the tarmac of San Francisco Airport.