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Brief fireball that came from underneath that aircraft. we have a picture from cnn ireporter timothy clark. he was at a hotel nearby. he heard a loud crash and then he told cnn, this is very unnerving. why? because i have a long flight home on monday. a lot of people feeling that way. i have to hop on a flight today. i m not too excited about it. when you see the images of flight 214 on the ground in san francisco it seems incredible. we ve been talking all morning about how incredible it is that so many of the passengers and crew were able to survive this tragedy. ahead, we ll talk with a former ntsb top official about why the construction of the plane itself may have actually helped protect passengers. southfork ranch in dallas for a cookout with world champion grill master brett galloway. he s serving his guests walmart choice premium steaks. but they don t know it yet. they will. it s a steak-over. steak was excellent. very tender. melts in your mouth. it was delicious. tonight ....
Scoreboard as part of a special pregame ceremony. let s go back now to our top story, that deadly plane crash in san francisco. amazingly, some even calling it a miracle that all but two of the plane s 307 passengers survived. now we go through the crash and what it was like for the survivors. reporter: harrowing accounts from survivors of asiana flight 214 after a crash landing at san francisco international airport. the moment it touched the runway, there was a bang, you know, and we knew that something has gone wrong. i thought we were going back up. i thought maybe we would go back up and start flying again, trying to improvise another landing, but we went back down again. so, it was, as i said, felt like slow motion. all of a sudden, the engine was all, like, he sped up, like the pilot knew he was short? reporter: instead of a ....
That when a crash like this occurred, people really had a chance to get out, both in terms of, say, seats, the flammability of the material used in the interior of the cabin, and the burn-through rate on the outside of the aircraft. and i think all three of these things contributed to the very, very positive outcome of this accident. can you walk us through the early stages of what will become this investigation as we go through the next weeks and months? i mean, is this one of those situations in which investigators will want to put this plane back together? what happens in the first few weeks or so? i would say the first thing that happens today is there will be an organizational meeting that s probably going to take place at the break of dawn in which they ll break into working ....
We appreciate it. and thank you for starting your morning with us. we have much more in the next hour of new day sunday. hour of new day sunday. that starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ten hours of calm end in just a few minutes of horror. we re live from san francisco on the crash of flight 214. the back end was hit and flies up in the air and everybody s head goes up to the ceiling. while the crash was fatal, it seems a miracle that more didn t die. you ll hear one survivor s terrifying story. more answers are emerging, but there are still more questions. two of the most important how did this happen and how do we prevent it from happening again? good morning, everyone. i m pamela brown. i m victor blackwell. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin this morning on the west coast, where about 16 hours ....
Eyewitnesses and air witnesses said it looked like the plane had come and touched down, and then the engines were revved up, more power was given to the plane. or did that happen before the plane impacted the sea wall at sfo? those are all critical questions which will make the difference as to the judgment the ntsb will apply to the pilots skill and performance. mary, aviation experts are saying that the boeing 777 actually has a pretty good safety record, but there has been one memorable crash with the boeing 777, at london heathrow airport involving a british airways boeing 777. it also happened upon landing. but how is this crash different from that crash? well, in that crash, icing was indicated. the weather was such, it had been a long flight in cold weather, and they attribute that one to icing having built up. there was a problem with icing in the fuel and it affected the engines. here it was a beautiful day in san francisco and there s no indication of icing. and another ....