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>> rick: a lot of details that we don't know about. the gentleman that we heard from doesn't know about and conflicting reports on the number of fatalities and casualties. we wanted to try to be a little non-specific we don't know. some reports have won one person being killed. others have two people dying and as many as 61 people injured. on the right side of screen is a shot of reagan national airport down in washington, d.c. area. the ntsb is set to hold a briefing from that location in just a couple of minutes. >> n.t.s.b. will be running the investigation and it will be critical to find o...

Also 16 crew members. the flight carrying at least 141 chinese passengers, 77 passengers from south korea, and 61 passengers who are u.s. citizens, that is according to the reuters news service. they are giving us a little information according to a south korean official who was on the plane and which countries they come from. want to talk a little bit more asiana air, history of this airline, dominic is live in los angeles. >> hey there, rick. asiana has had two fatal incident incidents in the past two-20 years. both involved boeing aircraft. one was 737-500 back in 1993 crashed it was coming...

Popular. >> rick: on the right-hand side screen, a bank of microphones that is what we expect to hear from the n.t.s.b. they are playing a major role in the investigation into this crash. as we've been on the air and listening to do any mick's reported can i got -- dominic's reporting. he was telling me more about designation of the runways from john scott. they were attempting to land on 28 "l", 28 according to john that the runway is heading 280 degrees, meaning 10 degrees north of due west. pilot was trying to land east to west. the winds would have been coming out of the west. so the winds...

Runway? >> you do. in the summertime in san francisco bay area is very chilly at times. the winds will gust right through there. it's not uncommon to have a little bit of turbulence as you land. that is why those visual glide delegaters there and instrument panel on the ground is intended to assist the pilots. also, many times there is a low visibility base of the fog in the area. even a beautiful summer like today, in the morning there will be fog. >> rick: we have new pictures of some of the passengers and folks right after, pictures that were sent to us. you can only imagine the trauma that...

That is what led to a delta crash in dallas that led to a whole bunch of safety changes and information, radar changes to help avoid wind shear. what caused this one to come in so low, i don't know, but it isn't necessarily pilot error. there may have been a pocket wind or tail wind that hit this plane that wouldn't allow it to stay in the air. >> rick: jon scott being a great news man and co-anchor of what is happening now, he a licensed pilot. thanks so much for your time. >> we wanted to bring in robert mark is a commercial pilot. he has flown into this airport. thank you for being here. yo...