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And then just boom, the back end just hit and flies up in the air and everybodys head goes up to the ceiling and it just kind of drifts for a little bit, probably a good 300 yards then tips over, fire starts. everybodys, wroyou know, pushi the doors out. >> elliot stone was on that trip, part of a martial arts trip with family members and friends. he says they are all safe. they are all holed up in the airport right now. authorities not letting them leave. apparently they want to be interviewed ...

Have live coverage of that news conference with all the authorities who spoke to us, who have been briefing us including the mayor of san francisco, the fire chief, the fbi agent in charge. he says, by the way, theres no indication of terrorism at this point. all right. standby. dan simon, our man on the scene in san francisco. earlier i spoke with a passenger who was on that flight, elliot stone. hes 25 years old. he was in seoul, south korea, with family members and friends at a martial arts e...

Time. >> it took a while i take it for the folks, emergency personnel to get to the plane. but it looks -- the pictures are terrible of this plane. it looks awful and were showing our viewers these pictures. but from what i hear you saying most of the people, at least your impression is most of the people did manage to escape? >> yeah, yeah. the plane looks bad now because it was on fire for an hour. everybody, yeah. a few hundred people that were out. probably 150 totally okay, were totally oka...

Waiting for answers. >> by my account they said 190 people. this is the fire chief in san francisco were self-evacuated from the plane and they were brought into the terminal. 82 who are with you still holed up in the airport, i assume, ben. they apparently dont have major injuries. so theyre still there. according to elliot stone, one of those 108 who are still at the airport, theyre not letting these folks go. i think its because authorities want to interview them. is that right? >> it seems l...

61 of those passengers onboard by the way americans. earlier i spoke with a man who was on the flight, 25-year-old elliot stone. he told me there was chaos, totally understandable. once that plane crash landed he said he saw several people who appeared to be badly hurt. listen to him describe the moment that 777 landed. >> it seemed like we were a little bit high and we could see the tarmac down below us and so we were coming down kind of sharp then right at the coast the landing, the engine was...

Just appears from 500 yards away just like crippled just walking and we started running over and there was another five bodies like 500 yards away that nobody saw. and so we were running over there calling an ambulance and stuff. the ambulances took like 20, 30 minutes to get there. pretty ridiculous. we were yelling at people, yelling at firefighters. get over here. they were just lagging hard. i dont know. not very impressed with the whole protocol and systems in place for this type of thing. ...

The impact, it is fire and smoke which is the biggest killer. >> take a look at the tail over there. you see it is open. my fear, richard, is that people were sucked out as that tail of the plane simply opened up. we did speak with one of the passengers, elliot stone a few moments ago. i dont know if you were listening to elliot stone. he said he was sitting in the middle with family members and friends coming back from seoul, south korea where he participated in a martial arts event in south ko...