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I have locked over hundred thousand miles since ways sworn in congress in january. it's an approach, you see the beautiful skyline of san francisco as you come in. you are about 2,000 feet over the runway. you usually touchdown and 3,000 feet foot runway at 28 "l". along the water you see instrument landing system that is used that helps guide the pilot and there are number of different indicators they can use. many of them will choose to turn the auto piloted off and fly that plane manually as they land. you are close to the water as you approach. >> rick: we heard from someone who was also f...

The first officer who was landing this plane, i would guess they were doing it by hand and somehow got too low. aviation, flying a plane like this it has to have adequate airflow over the wings. if for some reason the airflow was not sufficient, maybe because the engines lost a little power momentarily, maybe the pilot didn't give it enough fuel or maybe they hit an air pocket or microburst that took away the airflow. that plane can drop like a rock if it doesn't have airflow over the wings. if they got a tail wind as they are approaching the runway, that plane all of a sudden doesn't have lif...

Happened. all we know that one witness telling a local television station that the tail came off just before touchdown. that may be contradicted by other witnesses and you want to listen to the flight recorder and that will tell you some. if the pilots got out alive. we don't know of any fatalities yet. that would be critical. >> at least one official comment coming from the faa saying that while the sequence of events is unclear. it does appear the plane landed and then crashed. a love the information that is coming to us really is coming from eyewitnesses and rick folbaum is standing by. you...

>> rick: as we take a look at the debris. you saw just a minute ago that colorful piece of debris right at the tip of the runway that we believe to be a part of the tail that simply broke away. there have been some eyewitness reports it was the back of the plane that hit the runway first, slamming down. that is where the tail came off. then you can imagine, you can see the distance there that the plane actually traveled, skidded before coming to a stop. it's hard to know exactly how long that is. that is couple hundred yards that the plane skidded and you can only imagine the fear of the peopl...

Ground area and even before you get to the approach end of the runway. if that is the case, that would have made the aircraft hit down pretty hard which may have been reason the tail snapped off. he didn't fly very far, maybe 1500 feet it looks like from what i can see. i'm estimating that from the video i can see. it looks like he landed short of the runway. >> in a situation like that, what could possibly cause that to happen. usually flying into an airport like this, rick had asked jon scott who is controlling the airline at this point. do you land by hand? is it on autopilot typically? >> ...