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A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash-landed at San Francisco international airport.
There is no word so far on casualties. The aircraft operated by the South Korean airline Asiana had taken off from Taipei and was on the runway, with plumes of smoke rising from it.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed passengers jumping down the inflatable emergency slides and leaving the area.
Firefighters and rescue teams are at the scene. The cause of the emergency is not known.
It is not known how many people were on board - the Boeing 777 can carry as many as 300 passengers.
(CNN) -- A Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport.
Flight 214 left Seoul's Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and 23 minutes to California, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and commercial air traffic.
Anthony Castorani, who witnessed the flight land from a nearby hotel, said he saw the plane touch the ground then noticed a larger plume of white smoke.
"You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft," he told CNN.
Kristina Stapchuck saw the dramatic scene unfold from her seat on a plane on the airport tarmac. Soon after Flight 214 touched down, "it looked like the tires slipped a little bit and it rocked back," she told CNN.
Parts of the plane began to break off as it rocked and then began to spin.
"It all happened so suddenly," Stapchuck told CNN.
Video taken soon after the crash and posted on YouTube showed dark gray smoke rising from the plane, which appeared to be upright. That smoke later became white, even as fire crews continued to douse the plane.
A photograph posted to Twitter shows what appear to be passengers walking off the plane, some of them toting bags, as smoke rises from the other side.
"I just crash landed at SFO," read the message accompanying the picture from David Eun. "Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal..."
The Boeing 777-200LR has been in service since March 2006
The plane can carry 301 passengers and travel a maximum distance of 9,395 nautical miles
Asiana Airlines operates 71 aircraft and serves 14.7 million passengers annually
The airline was voted Airline of the Year by Global Traveler in 2011
In 1993, Asiana Airlines Boeing 737 crashed killing 68 people
The top of the aircraft was charred and, in spots, gone entirely, according to video from CNN affiliate KTVU. The plane was on its belly, with no landing gear evident and the rear tail of the plane gone.
Fire trucks were on site, while first responders could be seen walking outside the aircraft.
Evacuation slides could be seen extending from one side of the aircraft, from which there was no apparent smoke.
Corrine Gaines, from the U.S. Coast Guard's operations in San Francisco, said that a helicopter from the Guard had been launched and that her agency is helping others responding at the scene.
There were a few clouds in the sky around the time of the crash, and temperatures were about 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Winds were about 8 miles per hour.
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a "go team" that will be led by chairwoman Deborah Hersman to investigate the crash, the agency said.
Asiana Airlines-- one of South Korea's two major airlines, the other being Korean Air -- got the plane involved in the incident in 2006, according to the Aviation Safety Network. The craft has two Pratt & Whitney engines, it said.
Asiana operates many of its flights out of Incheon International Airport, which is the largest airport in South Korea and considered among the busiest in the world.
San Francisco International Airport, located some 12 miles south of downtown San Francisco, is California's second busiest, behind LAX in Los Angeles.
According to information on Asiana Airlines' website, the company has 12 Boeing 777 planes. They have a seating capacity of between 246 and 300 people and had a cruising speed of 555 mph (894 kph).
no reports of causalities yet 
Structural damage looks alarming, but in this case it could have been much worse.
Team Loco wrote:Unfortunately it is confirmed one of the dead had trauma consistent of being run over by a car. It is now believed she was knocked down by one of the first responders vehicle.
U survive a plane crash but then get knocked down. Geeze
kurpal_v2 wrote:Team Loco wrote:Unfortunately it is confirmed one of the dead had trauma consistent of being run over by a car. It is now believed she was knocked down by one of the first responders vehicle.
U survive a plane crash but then get knocked down. Geeze
Death tack back for the woman yes.
redmanjp wrote:kurpal_v2 wrote:Team Loco wrote:Unfortunately it is confirmed one of the dead had trauma consistent of being run over by a car. It is now believed she was knocked down by one of the first responders vehicle.
U survive a plane crash but then get knocked down. Geeze
Death tack back for the woman yes.
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maj. tom wrote:initial reports show that the plane was approaching at 85 knots just before it crashed. Recommended landing speed is 137 knots for the 777. The plane may have stalled at that speed and just fell straight down, 400-450 thousand? lbs deadweight.
Asiana victim who was run over may have been visible, videos suggest
Newly released videos obtained by CBS News suggest that the 16-year-old girl who was run over by a fire truck and killed after surviving a crash on ill-fated Asiana Airlines Flight 214 might have been visible to rescue workers, contradicting earlier reports that she was covered with fire-extinguishing foam.
Ye Meng Yuan died at San Francisco International Airport in July. One video, shot from a camera attached to an emergency worker's helmet, captures footage of a firefighter shouting warnings about Ye to a driver of a rescue vehicle.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, stop, stop! There's a body. ... There's a body right there, right in front of you," the rescue worker told the driver in one video. CBS News said it acquired the footage from someone close to Ye's family.
In a separate video shot from a rescue vehicle, also obtained by CBS, a rescue worker can be seen directing a truck to go around Ye's body, further implying that Ye, alive at the time according the coroner, was visible.
The video shows about 15 minutes after a fire rig driver was first alerted (to) Ye’s location on the ground, he ran her over. The helmet cam shows another truck also drove over Ye’s body minutes later.
Ye's family has filed a suit against San Francisco. CBS reached out to the San Francisco Fire Department, but was told it wouldn't comment, citing the pending litigation.
Family attorney Justin Green told CBS News that Ye's family wants accountability. “They want to know why weren’t the firefighters trained, why weren’t the supervisors certified and why hasn’t the fire department come clean about what happened?”
Three people died from the crash and its aftermath; 304 survived.
http://news.yahoo.com/asiana-victim-who ... 52396.html
Habit7 wrote:
KTVU apologizes for racist SF plane crash gaffe
KTVU Channel 2 is apologizing for an on-air gaffe that the station — or viewers – won’t soon forget.
During the noon newscast Friday, co-anchor Tori Campbell, announced that “KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board” Asiana flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
She then read from a teleprompter while a TV graphic displayed four fake names that clearly were someone’s idea of a joke.
The first name — “Captain Sum Ting Wong” — should have been a give-away that something really was wrong. But Campbell kept reading… “Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee firetruck, Bang Ding Ow.”
Yikes.
After a break, Campbell made an on-air correction, clarifying that the names were clearly wrong — but that they had confirmed them earlier with the National Transportation Safety Board.
KTVU news director Lee Rosenthal did not immediately turn our calls seeking comment.
This incident happened days after station made a web promo hyping its crash coverage:
“This past weekend viewers flocked to KTVU Channel 2 News for coverage of the tragic crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
KTVU Channel 2 News owned this breaking news story with a number of firsts!
- First on-air.
- First on-line.
- First with alerts to mobile devices.
- First on Twitter & Facebook.
- First with aerial shots from KTVU NewsChopper 2.
- First with a live reporter from the scene.
- First live interview with anyone connected to someone on the flight.
Rosenthal is quoted in the promo: “Being first on air and on every platform in all aspects of our coverage was a great accomplishment, but being 100% accurate, effectively using our great sources and social media without putting a single piece of erroneous information on our air, is what we are most proud of as a newsroom.”
In an-online apology, KTVU general manager Tom Raponi said “We are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again.”
Posted By: Matier and Ross ( Email ) | Jul 12 at 2:46 pm
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