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VOA慢速英语:Investigating the Crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214
来自美国之音慢速英语,这里是新闻报道。
American investigators this week examined wreckage from the Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed last Saturday at San Francisco airport. Officials say two kinds of equipment, the autopilot and auto-throttle, did not appear to have failed. American and South Korean officials are working together on the investigation. Asiana is Korea's second largest airline after Korean Air.
这个星期,美国调查人员检测了上周六在旧金山机场坠毁的韩亚航空公司的飞机残骸。官方称,自动驾驶仪和自动油门这两种设备似乎没有失效。美国与韩国官员进行调查工作。韩亚航空公司是韩国的第二大航空公司,排在大韩航空之后。
Asiana Flight 214 was carrying more than 300 people from Seoul to the United States. They included 141 Chinese, 77 Koreans and 61 Americans. Two passengers died after the crash. More than 180 people were taken to California hospitals for treatment. They were injured when the airplane, a Boeing 777, crash-landed.
韩亚航空214航班载有300多人从汉城飞往美国。 包括141名中国人、77名韩国人和61名美国人。两名乘客在坠机后死亡,180多人被送往加州医院接受治疗。他们是在一架波音777飞机着陆失事时受伤。
Information from the plane's flight data recorder shows that the aircraft was traveling too slowly as it came in for a landing. The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off.
飞机的飞行数据记录仪的信息显示,这架飞机着陆时太慢,起落架撞上跑道一端的防波堤,造成飞机尾部折断。
Investigators are also attempting to understand events that led to a 90 second delay in the order for everyone to leave the airplane. The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, met with reporters Thursday in San Francisco. She said her investigators had questioned six of the 12 flight attendants. The other six remained hospitalized.
调查人员也试图了解一起导致延迟90秒命令所有人离开飞机的事件。美国国家运输安全委员会的女主席Deborah Hersman周四在旧金山会见了记者。她说,此次调查曾经质询过12名空姐中的6位,其他6位仍然住院治疗。
Ms. Hersman said investigators would talk with all the flight crew members as they try to learn about the performance of the plane's safety equipment. Two flight crew members were injured when emergency escape equipment inflated inside the airplane.
Hersman女士说,调查人员会和所有飞行机组成员谈话,因为他们试图了解飞机安全设备的性能。两名飞行机组成员于紧急逃生设备在飞机内部充气膨胀时受伤。
The equipment is supposed to open up outside the plane so passengers can slide to the ground. The air safety official said the manufacturer of the device had offered to cooperate in the investigation.
该设备本应该在飞机外面打开,让乘客可以滑到地面。航空安全官员称,该设备制造商已经表示愿意配合调查。
At an earlier press conference, the NTSB chairwoman said the pilot at the controls was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777.
在更早前的新闻发布会上,国家运输安全委员会的女主席说,飞机上的主飞行员只通过了波音777飞行训练的一半课程。
But the head of Asiana Airlines rejected suggestions that the pilot and his co-pilot trainer lacked experience.
但韩亚航空公司负责人拒绝承认主飞行员和担任他副驾驶教练缺乏经验。
Speaking at his company's headquarters in Seoul, Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo defended the pilots' training.
韩亚航空公司总裁Yoon Young-doo在韩国首尔的公司总部为飞行员培训进行辩护。
American lawmakers are pressing for enactment of new pilot training rules in the United States and around the world. Senator Charles Schumer is from New York, where a 2009 plane crash killed 49 people.
美国国会议员正在加紧制定美国和世界各地新的飞行员训练规则。参议员Charles Schumer来自纽约,2009年那里一起飞机事故造成49人死亡。
"There is no reason that American passengers should be put at risk by poorly trained pilots in other countries."
“没有任何理由让美国乘客处于其他国家飞行员缺乏训练的风险中。”
Earlier this week, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye sent a letter of regret to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the Asiana Airlines crash. She also expressed sympathy to the families of two Chinese students who died. The two 16-year-old girls were the only deaths. They were found outside the plane, which caught fire as it slid down the runway. Investigators say one of the victims may have been struck by an emergency vehicle.
本周早些时候,韩国总统朴槿惠就韩亚航空公司失事向中国国家主席习近平发出遗憾致歉信。她还向两名遇难中国学生的家属表示同情。两名16岁的女孩是唯一的遇难者。她们在滑出跑道并起火的飞机外被发现。调查人员称,其中一名遇难者可能被救护车辆撞上。
Some survivors of the crash have criticized the lack of emergency medical transport. Fire trucks arrived within a minute of the crash but ambulances were delayed in reaching all the injured.
一些幸存者批评缺乏紧急医疗运输。消防车在坠机一分钟内赶到,但救护车在救治所有伤者时来得太迟。
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