Air under him. Get more lift. So essentially, pointed the nose of the plane up which is exactly what the witnesses say happened. And when he did that, you see he is still over the water. He is trying to get more lift and touchdown. When he did that, the nose went up, the tail went down and scraped along the rock barrier between San Francisco bay and the end of runway 28 l. That apparently caused quite a hard hit. Then the tail went off the plane and at that point, he lost all control of that airplane. In fact, it is quite fortunate that it was able to come to rest and so many people were able to walk off with very few injuries or no injuries at all. Absolutely. Thank you. If youre just now tuning in, heres what we know at this hour. Some definitive number and different inty reports. 307 people on this asiana flights 214 from seoul to sfo. You see what it looked like at 11 27 am during the crash. This photo was taken at about 11 28 a. M. Just a minute after the smoke surrounding this pl
Runway and snapped off. This is the runway, it came in like this. And i was just watching the wheeling and it just hit like this and whole thing collapsed immediately. Good evening, im julie haener. Im frank somerville. The chair of the National Transportation safety board is expected to arrive foyt to head up the investigation on the deadly crash at sfo. The asiana passenger jet came had in to land at sfo, it was 11 2 this morning. Witnesses say the plane hit tailfirst just yards short of runway 28l. The plane eventually came to a rest on the grass and dirt on the side of the runway and caught fire. Passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides. Most of the 307 people on board made it off okay. There were 291 passengers, and 16 crew members. Two people are confirmed dead. They were both chinese passport holders according to south korean officials. A total of 182 people were taken to air hospitals and 49 of them were seriously hurt and at this hour everyone has been accoun
Federal investigators are interviewing all four pilots who were on board. , including the man reportedry at the controls when the plane made a crashlanding. According to asiana airlines, hes logged close to 10,000 hours as a pilot, but just 43 hours on the boeing 737. And it was his first time landing that type of plane at this airport. When we interview those four crewmembers, were going to get a lot more details about their activity, about their work, about their training, about who was the pilot flying, who was the pilot in command. Reporter data recovered from two flight recorders showed the plane came in too slow and too low, before the tail hit a sea wall along the runway and broke off. Passenger Benjamin Levy thought the landing was being aborted. I thought maybe we would go back up and start flying again. We went back down again. As i say, it felt like slow motion. Reporter family members of the two teenage passengers who died, are coming here from San Francisco. The two girls
And no more missing passengers. Cheryl 307 people were on board from south korea when it crash landed around 11 30 this morning. Moments after it struck the ground and moments before it completely burst into flames, but as you can see it was burning pretty ferociously. Two people were killed. 182 were taken to the hospital. Amy hollyfield begins our Live Team Coverage with the latest briefing at sfo. Amy . Reporter we have learned much more about the moments after the crash. Fire chief tells us it was a difficult scene at first. The two bodies were found outside the plane. She says on board there were people that needed rescuing. There were passengers in the water at the waters edge. She says she doesnt think they were ejected but they were dousing themselves from the fire. Fire chief told us that the tail of the plane was separated by several hundred feet. There were Copious Amounts of smoke and confusion and chaos. She and mayor expressed gratitude and some shock there were so many s
16yearold victims was killed by a rescue vehicle on the run way. 30 people remain in the hospital. Two people are paralyzed. Were learning more about the pilot. Linda has details on what was essentially a training flight and more on what was happening in the cockpit before impact. An eyewitness records flight 214 as it crash lands. It skids. Oh, my god. Its an accident. Flip s on its side and bursts into flames. The flight data and voice recorders are giving them the clues to what happened in those final seconds. 7 seconds before impact one of the crew members called for more speed. The plane was going dangerously slow. I will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots. And were not talking about a few knots. Then 4 seconds before crashing, the sound of a stick shaker is heard. Its been activated. This is both an oral and a physical cue to the crew that they are approaching a stall. Its called a stick shaker but theres a yolk the pilot is holding and it vibrates. It is t