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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 ...

Coming in for that crash landing. don? >> rene, stand by. i would like to get jim tillmon back up, before i get jim back up, can we roll, again, the air traffic controllers, the portion that we have. and i want jim to listen to that. and then we'll talk about it. let's get it back up. can we play it? >> 214 out of san francisco, starting with your -- 214 heavy, emergency vehicles are responding. asiana 214 san francisco tower. asiana 214 heavy, emergency vehicles are responding. we have everyone on their way. >> jim tillmon, 214 heavy, what does that mean? jim tillmon, are you there? okay.

777, i'll just tell you a little more about asiana's fleet. it commissioned in 2006, the airline, itself, is running since 1988. it's known here really for its good service. it's had five incidents we've been hearing from richard quest since 1992, but it is difficult to make any assessment when we know so little about why this particular incident happened or to make any judgments on asiana's safety record, per se. that is the situation in seoul right now as people wake up to this news of that flight which originated from seoul's international airport yesterday afternoon, don. >> all right. dia...

Visibility and ceiling. it was mostly sunny skies. we had a light wind 8 miles per hour. good landing conditions. the strongest wind we could find was 13 but that was 10:00 p.m. the night before. there are absolutely no problems weather wise and of course they still have to make a report on this and also the flight weather observations for every flight elevation they were at. this is the marine layer and of course our aviation specialists have been talking about this. you know on the west coast from san francisco down to san diego the marine layer moves in. visibility is reduced. that burns of...

On flight aware as well. the flight comes in from the northwest. this is the way it came in from this direction. it flies along the coast. once it makes its way to san francisco it spins around and banks to the left and approaches the runway from the southeast. >> it generally does that because of the potential wind shears or just because of the topography there? >> i'm not an expert on this but part of it is the lay out. you can see how they brought out the runways in this direction. there is a prevailing wind that comes in from the northwest. a lot of times, and we had it today. this prevail...