WASHINGTON — When the National Transportation Safety Board opens two days of hearings here Tuesday on the deadly crash of an Asiana jumbo jet in San Francisco in July, investigators will have little difficulty establishing the immediate causes, including the three pilots’ failure to monitor their airspeed.

But people involved in the investigation say the board intends to show that the core issues are widespread, notably the pilots’ evidently limited ability to manage the ubiquitous automated systems in a modern cockpit.

In the Asiana crash, none of the three pilots in the cockpit noticed that the airspeed was far too low and that the plane was descending too fast as a result. They flew the plane as if they expected its speed to be controlled by the auto-throttle, a device that can control an aircraft’s engines to maintain safe airspeed. But the auto-throttle, part of the autopilot system, was off.

The National Transportation Safety Board raised the possibility a few days after the crash that the Asiana crew could have taken action that shut off the autopilot without realizing it.