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Time after the impact. we are all hoping everyone made it off before the flames consumed it. i covered another crash not unlike this in toronto several years ago, maybe 2004, 2005 where it was an air france airbus. similar thing, ran off the runway, broke up, everybody got off before the plane was consumed by fire. we are certainly hoping and praying. you look at the video, the tail section is gone. there should be one engine on each of the wings. you don't see them, at least not where they are supposed to be. the fire worked to the top of the aircraft. early pictures i saw showed the fire on ...

Pretty dog gone quick. the weather in san francisco right now, tom, it is not raining. it doesn't appear to be terribly cloudy. do we know any more about the conditions there? >> i don't know that immediately off the top of my head. we're trying to ascertain that as well. i would point out that this airport is notorious for having fog at any time of the day but it looks like a fairly clear day. at least at that very moment. if that video is minutes after the impact, it appeared to be relatively clear at the time of the crash. let me point out what you're not seeing. those images, i would at le...

To burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. to my knowledge, there's never been a fatal crash involving a 777. the weather picture appears to be...

Room? okay. what is the tweet? reported that the plane landed at a bad angle. flipped. flipped. then exploded. that's according to tweets from folks in the area. these are new stills that we are just getting in of this asiana airlines of this boeing that crash landed. again, if we could lose the banner, guys, you can see the chutes. you can see folks who clearly walked off that plane. we know, according to tom castillo, this type of plane can hold up to 450 passengers, roughly. we can see what appears to be at least two dozen or so getting off the plane. we do know, also, that there are

Chutes. tom castillo, the man that covers transportation joins me live via telephone. you have spoke to someone at the faa. what did you hear? >> caller: can you come to me for a minute? we have a blow up of this airport. this is san francisco airport. we believe he was coming down the runway, 28 left. he was coming in on this runway here, as close as you can get to the terminal, the terminal here. as he landed, at some point, lost control of the aircraft or in some way this ended in a sort of firy crash. he is relatively close to the emergency infrastructure there at the airport. we can go ba...