Page 44 - Rick Folbaum News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A 10 hour 23 minute flight crash landing. no flights into the san francisco and no flights flying out of that airport. some of the flights have been diverted. we heard some reports some of the planes are going los angeles. however, early information from doug yakel, public information officer at san francisco international airport, limited information. they were going to check back in with us in about another 15 minutes as we await the press conference. they are trying to gather information. they are getting bombarded from questions from reporters trying to figure out what is happening but fro...

I went from there and big explosion and all the smoke that most people have seen. >> was there flames? >> we do see flames. i sort caught the tail end. i didn't see, i saw the plane flip up and slam down and a little bit later it exploded. there was black smoke all over the place. >> arthel: that was an eyewitness account of a fisherman nearby. it appears, rick, from the various eyewitnesses we have spoken with, everybody seems to talk about the problem at the last minute of that landing there on runway 28 left in the san francisco airport. asiana flight 214 coming from south korea scheduled t...

Which was supposed to land safely at runway 28 "l". something went wrong at the very final moments of the landing according to robert mark who we just spoke to. a commercial pilot who has flown into sfo himself. we also had our own jon scott and licensed pilot calling about who or what, if the computer would be in control at that point in the landing or if in fact the pilots are in control. both are saying at that point, it's usually the pilot that is landed by hand. according to weather reports, the weather conditions there were pretty perfect. >> rick: it is on the bay. san francisco is know...

Nothing going on, the flight attendants, very much like a fireman rea little go to a bell in the station. they ran to those doors. they knew which doors open and got a lot of people out. we still don't know how many people have been lost in this. but the fire was really intense. >> arthel: robert mark, thank you for your time. a commercial pilot has flown into san francisco international in the past. >> rick: we are waiting for a 5:30 eastern time news conference from national transportation safety board. they have sent a go team to san francisco. we are under five minutes from that. in the me...

There you see the debris field, obviously n.t.s.b. investigators if they are not already on the ground they do have an office there, they will be there picking up and going through the debris to try to figure out what happened. there you see the back end and it is absolutely missing the back end of the plane including the tail and three sections of the tail section including the rudder, the elevator are in a different part of the runway. let's go to rick folbaum standing by live with details about the boeing triple 7. >> tough to look at the pictures and people that were on the flight and how ...