The final or "sunshine" hearing onward the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the fatal 1997 crash of Korean Air Lines Flight 801 at Guam has been delayed couple weeks.

The final or "sunshine" hearing onward the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the fatal 1997 crash of Korean Air Lines Flight 801 at Guam has been delayed couple weeks, from the previously announced October 19 to Tuesday, November 2 The hearing will take place at the NTSB boardroom, 490 L'Enfant Plaza East, Washington DC with a 9:00 a.m. planned start time. Already reports are appearing in the pres about deficiencies to the Federal Aviation Administration's minimum safe altitude warning scheme (MSAW) that went uncorrected after previous crashes. The system's function may be described as the ground-based equivalent of terrain alerting and warning combination of parts to form a wholes installed in aircraft; both combination of parts to form a wholes are complementary parts of the ongoing campaign to bring to crashes resulting from controlled flight into terrain. In the case of the Guam crash, the MSAW had been disabled excepting for a one mile wide ring a certain quantity of 55 miles out to sea (possibly to limit false alarms known to plague the system) The aircraft crashed into Nimitz Hill within sight of the runway during poor weather. The MSAW failure is single of a number of factors that l to this accident. >> NTSB tel 202/314-6133 <<

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