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This flight attendant was the last person to leave the aircraft and carried injured passengers, some twice her size on her back to safety, even though she herself was injured with a fractured tailbone. she said she didn't even realize her injuries. >> dan simon joins us now. that's incredible. i understand she revealed information about conversations she had with a pilot after the crash. what did she say? >> reporter: that's right. sh is a veteran flight attendant. she had been with this airline for nearly two decades. the plane has just crashed. he knocks on the door and checks to see if the ...

Airline. from a pr point of view, it important he be here, jake. >> it is amazing so many of the passengers survived considering what could have happened when you look at the photographs of the crash. it seems as though many of the passengers might have the flight attendants to thank. >> no question about it. there's something quite striking with respect to one of the flight attendants. when the flight crashed, he actually knocked on the cockpit door and made contact with the pilot and basically asked should we begin the evacuation procedures? what's really incredible is that the pilot said ho...

Investigators. not just what happened in terms of crash but the evacuation procedures as well. >> the flight attendant that you mentioned she was the last person to leave the plane. the burning wreckage and she helped guide a lot of frantic passengers off the plane and she didn't even notice to stop that she was injured herself. we have more about what happened after the crash. >> reporter: moments after the asiana crashed they escaped. now those flight attendants are being called heroes. >> translator: it was not the landing we usually do an it was more than a hard landing. we bumped hard, bu...

You really are going back through until town until you actually see -- you go back to november of 2001 where you have the american airlines incident where 260 people died in that. so, the size of this sort of aircraft having a fatality or emergencies of this manner is very rare. and that's why the investigators will want to know exactly what was happening on that aircraft at the moment of touchdown. and also one other thing, don, they'll want to know, because it's not just enough to know why or how this crash happened. they'll want to know about the evacuation procedures -- >> right. >> -- the...

Happen prior to the runway. so this is what we call a sink rate. if that's what happened. in any case, it was something that, it can be in airlines, fits not arrested by automated systems or by the pilot reconciling his power. then this sink rate can be very deleterious. it can rapidly go into this situation. >> as we look at what's left of this airplane, this asiana airlines airplane, it is really miraculous, considering that it has been -- >> astonishing. >> yeah. we're more than two and a half hours at this point. no reports of fatalities. at this point -- >> something to look into and exam...