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Touched down on the runway. you begin to land over -- you approach the runway over water. it looks like some of the debris field is in the water. it may be the case that the plane begin to break up literally moments before it touched down. it looks as though the landing gear has collapsed. this witness said that the planes tail came off. that the plane skidded along the runway and flipped over, but there you see the plane is actually on its belly. it came to rest adjacent to the runway and there...

>> what did you mean when you said high sink rate? >> what can happen if -- normally whener coming in you maintain a little bit of excess air speed and right toward the end you raise the nose and what is called a flare and that flare breaks your rate of descent. that is why you have real nice touchdown where the passengers will clap because its such a sweet, soft landing. that is gracing it on. if you fail to break that descent or get the nose up too high and you cant brake it and come on with p...

To burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. ...

It is in the water. tail section appears to be on the front end of the runway. >> this is a fox news coverage of a plane crash in san francisco at san francisco international airport. im gregg jarrett in new york. there you see part of the debris field from an asiana, a boeing 777 that begin in seoul, south korea and destination, san francisco international airport. it happened at about 11:20 this morning when this jetliner crash landed. it was in the process of landing. according to a witness t...

Down. it is conjecture at this nothing more than that. the nose is in good shape. the tail may have come down firt point, you had a fire. probably originating in those engines. the fire is limited to the middle of the fuselage. it didnt get into the cockpit and it didnt spread all the way back to the tail section or the rear of the plane. you got to wonder if this wasnt a situation where for whatever reason, they were coming in nose pitch high, tail hit the ground first and then the rest of the ...

Airport is missing -- >> the 747 aircraft has exploded -- >> an explosion that is over the atlantic ocean that is being reported. >> clyde willis, captain of a dredging company boat was first at the scene. >> the water was just burning. it kind of looked like it was burning maybe two foot off of the water. it was like a wall of fire. >> flames and wreckage for as far as the eye could see. >> wings, tail section, cushions, seats, anything that would float really. then we saw the first body. it ap...

Exhausted. she says no, mom, im psyched. >> reporter: the forecast for the flight to paris called for smooth sailing. and for 12 minutes, it was. >> a 747 that took off from kennedy airport is missing. >> a 747 aircraft has exploded. >> reporter: clyde willis, captain of a dredging company boat, was first at the scene. >> the water was just burning. and it looked like it was burning maybe two foot off the water. it was just like a wall of fire. >> reporter: flames and wreckage were as far as the...

Over bagram. 747 carrying cargo can reach altitude almost two minutes faster. >> the typical concern with a cargo aircraft and caused accidents before is when the airplane is rotated with the nose up, the cargo moves aft if its not properly secured. >> reporter: cargo is chained down, but if an attachment point fails, it could shift. >> we dont know that that happened here. that has happened in prior accidents. then the airplane becomes uncontrollable. >> reporter: its much harder to have a mass...

Have expanded to the breaking point and snapped. its the aft pressure bulkhead, an umbrella-shaped structure toward the back of the plane. >> its the device that keeps the pressure in the back part of the airplane contained properly. without that aft pressure bulkhead you cant pressurize the tube and you wouldnt be able to breathe at 35,000 feet without the use of pressurized supplemental oxygen. >> the back of the airplane is getting a considerable amount of stress, not only from the pressuriza...

He said we are still at 2,000, right? the captain begins to look and says what happened to the altitude and they begin to take corrective action. >> but it is too late. >> the engines roared and we hit and the world exploded. it was a huge fire ball. >> the plane rips apart. the crash is scattered over an expansive area. >> i was in the tail and the tail section broke off and we began spinning. and we spun 1,500 feet and at the end of the spin, the tail actually turned over. and when it did, the...