turn leants on the ground turbulence on the ground and included the entire tail basically being shorn off of that fuselage. arthel: some 291 passengers on board. emergency slides had been deployed. we were talking to a commercial pilot, robert mark earlier. he had flown into san francisco airport. at that point in the landing pilot more than likely was in control of that plane. a report that all electronic instruments in the cockpit on the boeing 777. again we want to let you know, if you are tuning in asiana flight 214 scheduled to land at san francisco 11:26 local time.
or fatalities. we can t pass that along. it s obviously very large plane as you can see. according to some of the data we have on this boeing triple 7, it can carry as many as 451 passengers depending on which model it is. it s not immediately clear what caused the crash. we mentioned the witness who said it lost its tail. we ll be getting additional information. there was a video clip posted to youtube showing smoke coming from the jet as it was like on tarmac. some passengers, now i m getting this from kgo san francisco, channel 7, passengers could be seen jumping down the inflatable emergency slides. so that is good news to
on what you re at right now. this is an asiana airlines flight headed from seoul, south korea. it left seoul 4:30 yesterday. it was set to than in san francisco around 11:15 local time. obviously 2:15 here on the east coast as it was approaching runway 28, something went terribly wrong. that plane crash handed. it is resting to the left of runway 28. passenger were seen jumping down the emergency slides. at this point we have no official word on the number of injuries. kntv the affiliate there saying there were 291 people on board. at one point we heard from air traffic control that the pilots did get off the plane. we ve heard from an eyewitness. we heard from an eyewitness on the air a short time ago that it
pilot talking to the tower, to the san francisco tower. when he made the last communication which was just a few seconds before he touched down, there didn t seem to be anything going on at all. there didn t seem to be any concern on the pilot s voice. they were actually talking to them after the airplane hit on the ground. they were still waiting for the emergency crews to show up. obviously their voices were different but they were still talking at that point. in terms ask me that last question. arthel: i have another question. you were just saying the pilots were talking to the control tower upon approach. i told you that the emergency slides were deployed. i was asking if that gives you any indication in the timing of that. how much time the pilot had to react. also, there were other planes there waiting to take off. again indicating that whatever happened was pretty much at the last
near the airplane to equip the survivors to get the fire out. it looks like it will go down as a very, very well orchestrated response on the part of the san francisco airport fire rescue people. and folks at home watching, obviously, the pictures that we are seeing are amazing. you can see the broken parts of the plane strewn about runway 28. you can see the debris there. if we can control them, i would like to show this picture that we showed earlier of survivors getting off that plane as well. we saw the chutes. to the right of the screen there. you can see there folks who managed to get off that plane were still working to find out precisely how many folks are on board the plane. and how many folks are injured if there are any injuries. who is to say there are injuries? we can see at one point, according to eyewitnesses, passengers jumping down those inflatable emergency slides.