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The impact. eyewitnesses watching it all unfold. >> oh, my god! >> we just saw a plane crash! >> reporter: police officers on the ground threw utility knives up to the plane any crew so they could cut through the seatbelts of those who remained trapped. we were out on san francisco bay, the closest view of the wreckage with one of the survivors, benjamin levy. you won't forget which seat you were in? >> no. 30 k. >> reporter: 30 k. close to the emergency exit. >> the seat next to the door. >> reporter: benjamin told me it seemed as if the pilot was trying to take off again. >> as we were appro...

The fire came afterward. the firemen were fast on the site and so by the time i was back in the plane towards the back of the plane some firemen, a woman actually came to the backdoor of the plane, i think. so the fire crew was on site pretty quickly and then tried to bring people to safety. >> benjamin levy who was on the plane from seoul to sfo when it crashed at 11:27 in the morning was on the plane and kind enough to join us now. i don't know if you are near a television. you but if you are able to turn us on, on msnbc and see the photos of the plane crash that you survived. can i ask were...

People out. >> reporter: dozens of people are still hospitalized and hospitals from san francisco all the way to palo alto at stanford university. at least seven are in critical condition, including an infant. >> what more do we know about the two students from china who died in that crash? >> reporter: well, as you said earlier, craig, these are two 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of -- one of two groups from middle schools in china who were coming to the united states for summer camp, including tours of college campuses in the northern california area. and they were seated in th...

As soon as i felt the pilot putting full throttle on the engine, the engine roaring to try to gain lift again, that's when i realized something was wrong and we hit first pretty hard the runway and then the airplane starting to go back up because, again, the engine was pushing very hard to try to gain some altitude last minute. and the plane started lifting up and towards the left, at which point as i explained i think yesterday i was feeling hopefully we can take off again and do another run at this without any landing gear or some emergency landing. but we just started slamming really hard i...