KNTV NBC Bay Area News Special July 7, 2013
Air under him. Get more lift. So essentially, pointed the nose of the plane up which is exactly what the witnesses say happened. And when he did that, you see he is still over the water. He is trying to get more lift and touchdown. When he did that, the nose went up, the tail went down and scraped along the rock barrier between San Francisco bay and the end of runway 28 l. That apparently caused quite a hard hit. Then the tail went off the plane and at that point, he lost all control of that airplane. In fact, it is quite fortunate that it was able to come to rest and so many people were able ...