By Holly Quan

An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 airplane lies burned on the runway after it crash landed at San Francisco International Airport July 6, 2013. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The National Transportation Safety Board hearings to investigate the crash of Asiana Flight 214 are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday this week, but the pilots will not be testifying.
One Walnut Creek lawyer will be paying close attention to the hearings in Washington. Michael Verna was one of the first to file a lawsuit on behalf of the passengers, but he said answers will be limited without the testimony of these key witnesses.
The hearings are designed to find probable causes of the July 6th crash and look for recommendations, but not necessarily to find fault.

Holly QuanBorn and raised in Oakland, Holly graduated from San Francisco State. She got her start in radio at age 16 by interviewing high school friends for the...More from Holly Quan