Mail.comSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Flight 214 crashed while landing on runway 28 left at the airport at 11:26 PDT. A video clip posted to YouTube shows smoke coming from a silver-colored jet on the tarmac. Passengers could be seen jumping down the inflatable emergency slides. Television footage showed debris strewn about the tarmac and pieces of the plane lying on the runway.
Fire trucks had sprayed a white fire retardant on the wreckage. A call to the airline seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco to probe the crash. NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said Saturday that NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman would head the team.
Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the oneWorld alliance, anchored by American Airlines and British Airways.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world’s most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another. The airline’s website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.
The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from JFK in 2001. Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.
Associated Press writers Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C., and Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report.
LOL. I JUST copied the link for this one to send it in.
Mine had video, though.
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LOL
He beat me to it, also. 🙂
Did everyone survive?
Not sure, yet. Read an eyewitness report that it came in with the tail too low. The tail ripped off and the plane did cartwheels down the runway.
Just saw a newer article that said at least two died.
Apparently a number of people fell out of the back of the plane when the tail broke off. Two teenage girls from China are the known fatalities – their bodies were found on the runway. I fly often and this makes one wonder.
There is reference to a similar ‘accident’ in Britain back in 2008. It was reported that the plane (also a 777) landed short (crash landed) as the throttles failed to respond.
Media is now saying the plane probably came in short and the tail probably hit the seawall at the beginning of the runway. May very well be ‘pilot error’. The ‘tower to pilot’ recordings are interesting as the pilot comments are not translated into English at this point.
Knowing the NTSB is ‘investigating’ this crash is a comforting thought. 🙁
reported military was on scene. was snowden on board>sarcasm< unfortunately, no one trust the media anymore forcing us to sift thru all the bs and i have come to the conclusion we have terrorists in this country who wish to do us harm. trying to figure out the game is downright exhausting. on 4th of july the u.s. was on high alert for possible terrorist attacks from islamic terrorists or was that al queda. honestly, i don’t even know the difference. as this story evolves it was either a malfunction or worse. the plane practically flies itself and said to be most preferred by pilots.