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Right side of the plane. the one on the left side is not there. where is it? people have been asking me on social media and asking others. we don't know. the officials can tell us that. i would imagine it's somewhere close to the airport, and that it's at least partially intact. according to national transportation safety board former vice chairman, robert francis, who's here with us as well, he said part of the information, much of it, if not most of it, will come from the flight data recorders, the cockpit recorders, which are located in the tail section of the airplane, which was broken off...

Boeing, and from other participants. we are working now with our counterparts in korea, the korean air and accident investigation board, and we will invite them to serve as a participant in our investigation. we're leaving now. we should arrive in san francisco in just a few hours and then we will get to work when we arrive. happy to take any questions. >> what do we think happened? obviously we have a lot of work to do. as you know when our teams arrive on scene they work to collect information. we'll certainly be looking at the aircraft to find the cockpit voice recorders and flight data rec...

Asiana 214 heavy, san francisco tower. air heavy 214, emergency vehicles are responding. we have everyone on their way. >> again, air traffic controllers speaking to that plane, talking about the situation happening there. we'll have more on that in a moment as we get more information and more recordings here in on cnn. it should be ready very shortly for you, so stand by. we'll get that on the air for you as soon as we get it. let's go to rene marsh in washington. rene is in washington, robert francis is in washington as well. rene, still the press conference has not started. it was supposed ...

Little. and that's what happened apparently, at least it seems that way. especially you look at the debris, you can see that there was a stick made by the aircraft just prior to the time they even got to the threshold of the runway, nevertheless the runway itself. >> jim tillmon, stand by. thank you very much. we want to get live, live pictures on the ground, cnn's dan simon at san francisco international airport. dan, we listened to that press conference just a short time ago. you were there. what information are you getting in? >> reporter: you know, basically they just wanted to confirm the...

Assessment too early to figure out exactly what's going on. but a lot of the eyewitnesss, a lot of people that were on the mane, are saying the same thing. >> well, that will be one of the prime things that will be of interest to the ntsb. eyewitnesss are very important. they're not always the most reliable, but eyewitness information is then checked against other information that they have, whether it's damage to the aircraft. but particularly with the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. so, you're trying to put together all the information that you can get from any sources, ...