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CHAPTER SEVEN
The Ethnic Theoryof Plane Crashes
"CAPTAIN~ THE WEATHER RADAR
I-IAS I2£ELPED US A LOT."
On the morning of August 5, I997, the captain of KoreanAir flight 8o~ woke at six. His family would later tell inves-tigators that he went to the gym for an hour, then camehome and studied the flight plan for that evening’s journeyto Guam. He napped and ate lunch. At three in the after-noon, he left for Seoul, departing early enough, his wifesaid, to continue his preparations at Kimpo InternationalAirport. He had been a pilot with Korean Air for almostfour years after coming over from the Korean Air Force.He had eighty-nine hundred hours of flight time, includingthirty-two hundred hours of experience in jumbo jets. Afew months earlier, he had been given a flight safety awardby his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet enginefailure at low altitude. He was forty-two years old and inexcellent health, with the exception of a bout of bronchitisthat had been diagnosed ten days before.
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