Attendant who worked frantically to help passengers and crew members off the plane. As soon as i heard emergency escape, i conducted the escape. Reporter of the more than 180 passengers injured, 26 remain hospitalized six in critical condition, including one child. A tae kwon do team return iing explained what happened. I looked over and i could see fuel dropping from the wing. Reporter meanwhile, some passengers grabbed their luggage, purses and duty Free Shopping before exiting the plane. Its a life and death situation for you to stop and get your bag rather than thinking of all the other people coming behind you. Reporter because this is a foreign crew, there was no legal obligation to drug test them. Having 28 closed has created problems here at sfo. They have delays running up to an hour or so. They may take another week or so to continue to look at this aircraft thats out on the runway. Back to you. Tom costello leadingur coverage starting off tonight in san francisco. Thanks. Th
Intriguing. Again tonight, nbcs tom costello starting us off from the scene at sfo in san francisco. And tom, we also learned of another very close call for members of this crew . Thats right, two flight attendants on board were ejected out of the back of this plane as it crash landed. Amazingly, they survived. The training captain, the captain who was training his colleague to fly the 777, he said he though they were coming in at 137 knots, thats the appropriate speed. They realized they were in trouble when they saw the red lights at the end of the runway that were supposed to guide them in, they were not lined up properly, and from there, something went terribly wrong. Today new pictures of the crash scene in san francisco, the top priority has been to interview all four pilots who were on board flight 214, including the veteran captain who was new to the 777 and was at the controls saturday. The teaching captain told investigators he realized at 200 feet they were coming in too slo
Good evening. And again tonight a lot of attention is being focused on a runway in san francisco, along with a seawall and the waters just offshore. Nearby, of course, sits that burned out hull of a wide bodied jet. And just tonight at the latest briefing on the crash of the Asiana Airlines 777, we learned the jet was indeed flying low and slow, too low and too slow it turns out to make it to touchdown without incident. We learned a lot more about the cockpit crew today. All veterans of long haul air travel. And because of their experience, the investigation into what went wrong here now gets more intriguing. Again tonight, nbcs tom costello starting us off from the scene at sfo in san francisco. And tom, we also learned of a very close call for other members of this crew. Reporter thats right, two Flight Attendants on board were ejected out of the back of this plane as it crash landed. Amazingly, they survived. The training captain, the captain who was training his colleague to fly th