Tail Split Off News Today

Person to a hospital. we dont know the extent of that persons injuries as well. a lot of the pictures that youre looking at are coming from cnn i-reporters who were either at the airport or who were very near the airport. one young lady said her father was on the plane. he texted her and he also spoke with her and he said he saw it coming. he felt a jolt on the plane. he felt as if the plane was coming in too quickly and the pilot tried to bring the plane back up, to put the plane back into the ...

My best advice for passengers who are traveling today through sfo is to check with their airline to verify the status of their flight. thats all the information i have at this time. we will hold another press conference at this location in one hour, at 3:00 p.m. ill be happy to take any questions. >> what is your name? >> my name is doug yakel, im the public information officer at the airport. >> what do you know so far -- >> sure. >> doug yakel airport spokesperson, thats the press conference i...

You know, the public information officer may not be the best equipped person at the moment to relay everything thats going on, he may have to confer with some other folks. so hopefully, again, at the tom of the hour well start getting some of those details. inside i can tell you just in terms of the people i talked to, some of them relayed, you know, seeing that fireball, seeing all of this smoke, and they, of course, are wondering whats happening as well. but they want to know when theyre going...

Visibility and ceiling. it was mostly sunny skies. we had a light wind 8 miles per hour. good landing conditions. the strongest wind we could find was 13 but that was 10:00 p.m. the night before. there are absolutely no problems weather wise and of course they still have to make a report on this and also the flight weather observations for every flight elevation they were at. this is the marine layer and of course our aviation specialists have been talking about this. you know on the west coast ...

Now. >> the images, weve been looking for two hours but when you talk about the stone seawall and eyewitnesses saw that tail start to break apart people on the ground, eyewitnesses are able to say they see this debris area and if you listen to what the analysts are saying theyre saying this might be a relatively easy investigation to piece together just by looking at the debris field. of course there are other factors that come into play. >> right i believe don mentions in the tail, once they fi...

Any information on the patients status. again, news conference at 5:30 eastern time, where we will get more information on that. to cnns dan simon first, who is in san francisco with the very latest. dan, what are you hearing there from san francisco, in san francisco? >> well, hey, don, im actually in the international terminal at the airport. we just had the very first briefing from officials here at the airport. they really couldnt provide a whole lot of information. they basically confirmed ...

Displaced runway area. it is the end of the runway. it is often -- it is the bit where you have touch anything d because the runway may not be strong enough or whatever, not geared for that. so, the plane definitely clearly made contact with the runway before the threshold which is the piano keys which is further down the runway. and in doing so either because of altitude, attitude of the aircraft, speed or whatever was going on in the cockpit at that time then it, of course, the tail split off....