Asiana Airlines says the supervisory training captain aboard its jet that crashed-landed at San Francisco International Airport had no prior experience instructing a Boeing 777 flight.
 
South Korea's second largest airline explained Monday it was the first time for captain Lee Jeong-min to sit as a supervisory trainer on a 777 flight since he acquired a license for the position last month.
 
In all, Lee had 12-thousand-387 hours of flying experience, including three-thousand-220 hours on the Boeing model. 
 
The pilot who was in the captain’s seat, Lee Kang-kuk, had nine-thousand-793 hours of flying experience. However, he had only 43 hours of flying time on the 777 over the course of nine flights. The Saturday flight was also his first to the San Francisco airport.
 
Some critics have pointed out that it was unusual for a rookie instructor and a pilot in training to fly a plane together to an airport where landing is considered tricky.
 
Asiana Airlines, however, has stressed that Lee Kang-kuk and Lee Jeong-min are veteran pilots.