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BREAKING NEWS: Plane Carrying 291 Passengers Crash Lands at San Francisco Airport

Daily Mail UK, 6 July 2013



Passenger Jet Crashes at San Francisco Airport: Catastrophe after 'Tail Snapped off Boeing 777 on Landing and made Aircraft Flip Over'

A Boeing 777 plane carrying 291 passengers crash landed at San Francisco airport this afternoon. Horrific photographs of the damage caused to the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 flight from South Korea emerged moments after the crash. They showed both wings had been ripped off on impact and a huge blaze tearing through the large jet. The extent of injuries on the plane are still unknown.

A Boeing 777 plane carrying 291 passengers crash landed at San Francisco airport this afternoon.

The tail and both wings of the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 flight from South Korea were ripped off in the horrific accident and a huge blaze tore through the plane which onlookers described as 'cartwheeling' on impact.
Horrific photographs of the damage emerged moments after the crash as well as cellphone videos of the plane as it spun out of control.

The extent of injuries of those on the plane are still unknown but several passengers could be seen fleeing down emergency inflatable slides.

A huge smoke cloud could be seen for miles from the site of San Francisco International and tourists in the airport terminal and on waiting flights could only look on in horror as the plane spun across the runway.


Major accident: The plane which may have been carrying up to 450 passengers crash landed at San Francisco today




Landing: The plane failed to land safely and witnesses described watching the tail and then the wings being ripped off as it hurtled along the runway on its belly

Onlookers said much of the tail came off in the crash while others reported seeing the plane's fuselage flipping upside down as it journeyed across the concourse.

The entire ceiling of the plane was burnt off in the blaze that immediately followed.

Emergency workers rushed to the plane and doused it with white foam to try and control the flames. They were able to help those who were miraculously able to escape the wreckage.

Witnesses spoke of their horror.
An onlooker named Kristina Stapchuck told CNN it looked like the tires split and the plane leaned back on the tail before the tail broke off.
Others described it as 'cartwheeling' across the runway.

Danielle Wells tweeted: 'I just saw a plane crash start to finish. I can't stop crying, I can't believe this.'


Asiana flight: The passenger jet crash landed after seemingly suffering no issues while in the air



Debris: Bits of the large 777 were thrown from the plane

One witness told CNN that there didn't seem to be any preparations for a crash landing before the plane came in suggesting it was an issue that only emerged on landing.

Luckily no other standing planes were caught in the accident despite dozens waiting to take off from the major airport.

Experts speculated that there could have been a problem with the plane's landing gear or the pilot may have had trouble landing the flight at the notoriously overcast terminal.

The plane departed Incheon airport near South Korea's capital around 12 hours ago and was due to land at 9.45am on the West Coast.

All flights at the airport have now been cancelled.



Crash landing: The plane pictured on the runway at San Francisco airport



Smoke cloud: Smoke from the plane crash could be seen for miles

Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the oneWorld alliance, anchored by American Airlines and British Airways.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another. The airline's website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.
The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from JFK in 2001.
Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.






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SAN FRAN PLANE CRASH: 2 DEAD, 60 MISSING

Updated 8:10 PM EDT, Sat July 6, 2013


Two people died and dozens more were unaccounted for after a Boeing 777 from South Korea crashed Saturday upon landing at San Francisco's airport, sending up a huge fireball, shedding its tail and spinning before screeching to a stop.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 left Seoul's Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and commercial air traffic. An airline spokesman in Seoul told CNN that 291 passengers and 16 staff members were aboard when it crashed around 11:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. ET).

Two people have died, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said.

"Upwards of approximately 60 people" are unaccounted for, the chief said.

At least 130 others are being treated, or will soon be treated, at nine Bay Area hospitals, Hayes-White said around 4:10 p.m.

Eight injured adults and two children at San Francisco General Hospital are in critical condition, said San Francisco General Hospital spokeswoman Rachael Kagan.

Authorities warned the numbers of dead, injured and unaccounted for at San Francisco International Airport could change in the coming hours. First responders have gone on the plane "doing search and rescue attempts," Hayes-White said.

"This is still a fluid and active scene," Mayor Edwin Lee told reporters.
Air traffic control audio -- between the airport's tower and Flight 214 crew members -- suggested that those on the ground knew there was some sort of problem, promising that "emergency vehicles are responding."

"We have everyone on their way," the air traffic controller said, according to LiveATC.net, a website that provides air traffic control audio.

One of those on the flight, Elliott Stone, told CNN that he thought the plane was approaching "a little high (then came) down a little sharp.

"All of a sudden, boom, the back end just hit and flies up into the air and everyone's head goes up the ceiling," said Stone, who added that he ended up jumping out the plane without using the stairs or an evacuation slide.

Anthony Castorani, who witnessed the landing from a nearby hotel, said the plane touch the ground then noticed a large plume of smoke.

"You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft," he told CNN.

The Bay Area airport was closed to incoming and departing traffic after the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said on its website, adding that the time when it's expected to reopen is unknown.

Flights destined for San Francisco's airport -- known by its call letters, SFO -- were being diverted to airports in Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose and Los Angeles, said Francis Zamora from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.

In an official tweet around 3:30 p.m., San Francisco International Airport said that two of its runways had reopened.

The airport, located 12 miles south of downtown San Francisco, is California's second busiest, behind LAX.

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.

Members of South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board will travel to San Francisco, that agency said. They'll be joined by members of the United States' National Transportation Safety Board, which is sending a "go team" led by chairwoman Deborah Hersman to investigate the crash.

"We have not determined what the focus of this investigation is yet," Hersman said shortly before leaving Washington for San Francisco.

"Everything is on the table at this point."

There are no signs of terrorism related to the crash, a national security official told CNN. President Barack Obama was at Camp David when he learned about the crash, a senior White House official said.

Asiana Airlines -- one of South Korea's two major airlines, the other being Korean Air -- is also investigating the cause of the crash, a company spokesman told CNN.

The airline received the plane involved in the incident in 2006, according to the Aviation Safety Network. The aircraft has two Pratt & Whitney engines, it said.

Flying to 23 other countries, the 25-year-old 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.

According to information on Asiana Airlines' website, the company has 12 Boeing 777 planes. The airliners have a seating capacity of between 246 and 300 people and had a cruising speed of 555 mph (894 kph).
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Terrible Death of two Chinese Schoolgirls, 16, whose Bodies were Found on Runway after Boeing 777 Crash at San Francisco Airport

Airport had switched off a navigation system that helps pilots make safe descents Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea to San Fransisco crashed during landing at 11.30am PDT Saturday

Boeing 777 flight had 307 people on board - 291 passengers and 16 crew members
At least six people are listed in critical condition, including two children

141 of the passengers were Chinese, 77 were South Korean, 61 were American and 1 was Japanese

Flight-data recorders have been recovered from the wreckage and an investigation into the cause is underway

Eyewitnesses reported seeing plane's tail tear off and the fuselage spinning around






The Moment Disaster Struck in San Francisco: Aerial Photos show Boeing 777 Crash



NEW A dramatic sequence of pictures shows the moment Asiana Airlines Flight 214 hits the runway at San Francisco airport and catches fire. As the Boeing 777 comes to a standstill plumes of thick smoke can be seen engulfing the aircraft. Two Chinese schoolgirls died and more than 180 people were injured in the Saturday morning crash.


Engine failure was likely not the cause of the crash, the airline's president has revealed
, as it emerged that the airport had switched off a navigation system that helps pilots make safe descents

Daily Mail UK, 7 July 2013


The two victims who perished as an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed and burst into flames as it came to land at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday morning have been identified as Chinese schoolgirls who were on a class trip.
The bodies of Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16, were found on the runway after the tail of the plane, which was flying from Seoul in South Korea with 307 people on board, was ripped off as the aircraft hit the approach area of the runway as it came in for landing shortly before 11.30am PDT.

The girls, who were identified by Chinese state media on Sunday, were part of a group of 29 students and five teachers who had set off from Jiangshan Middle School - a highly competitive school in Zhejiang in eastern China. They were all seated near the back of the plane.

Remarkably, the remaining 305 people on board survived but more than 180 people suffered injuries after the plane turned into a fireball.

As an investigation continues into what caused the crash, details of the passengers' terrifying ordeal have started to emerge. They have described how police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage so they could cut away passengers' seat belts.

Horrifying pictures taken by survivors immediately after the crash showed passengers jumping down emergency slides and hurrying away. Thick smoke then billowed from the fuselage, and TV footage later showed the aircraft gutted and blackened by fire, with much of its roof gone.
While many of the passengers managed to escape the plane using the emergency exit slides, some survivors were also seen in the water just off the runway.



Heartbroken: The parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in eastern China on Sunday. She lost her life with another teenage student on Saturday



Horror: This picture was tweeted by Samsung executive David Eun who survived the crash. Two girls lost their lives after the tail was ripped off



This aerial photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport


Tail snapped off: The plane that was carrying 291 passengers is missing its tail section



A fire gutted the aircraft cabin after the tail snapped off the plane on landing. The Boeing 777 skidded along the runway


Disaster: It is not known what caused the crash but eyewitnesses reported seeing the plane come down tail-first before the runway

‘Some passengers were observed coming out of water - the assumption is that they maybe doused themselves, said Joanne Hayes-White, San Francisco’s fire chief.
Local hospitals treated 182 passengers with at least six people said to be in a critical condition. Around 49 are in a serious condition while 123 passengers sustained injuries in the crash.

There was no immediate indication of the cause of the accident and National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived at the airport around midnight to begin the inquiry into what had caused the accident.
Investigators took the flight data recorder to Washington, D.C., overnight to begin examining its contents for clues to the last moments of the flight, officials said. They also plan to interview the pilots, the crew and passengers.
While authorities have said very little about the investigation at this early stage, clues have emerged in witness accounts of the planes approach and video of the wreckage, leading one aviation expert to say the aircraft may have approached the runway too low.
Mike Barr, a former military pilot and accident investigator who teaches aviation safety at the University of Southern California, said it appeared that something on the plane in its low approach may have caught the runway lip - the seawall at the foot of the runway.


Probe: NTSB's Greg Smith is pictured with the flight data recorder and ****pit voice recorder from the Asiana flight in Washington D.C.



Questions: NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman (front) and Investigator-in-Charge Bill English look at interior damage to Asiana Airlines Flight 214, at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday





Investigation: NTSB investigators conducting their first site assessment of Flight Asiana 214. The probe could take months, officials have said


Investigators are also looking into what role the shutdown of a key navigational aid may have played in the crash. The glide slope - a ground-based aid that helps pilots stay on course while landing - had been shut down by the airport since June.
Asiana Airlines said it did not appear that the crash had been caused by mechanical failure although it declined to blame either the pilot or an error by the control tower.
In a bizarre twist, passenger Lee Jang Hyung
Saturday night that after the plane had come to a stop following the violent crash, a voice came over the intercom informing the terrified passengers that Flight 214 had landed safely and everyone should remain in their seats.
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Hayes-White said during a press conference Saturday evening that 190 people used emergency slides and walked away from the wreck. During a late-night press conference, the chief announced that all passengers have now been accounted for.

Of the 190 people who left the wrecked plane to safety, 182 have been transported to hospitals in San Francisco and San Mateo counties with injuries ranging from abrasions to fractures, burns and spinal injuries.

According to Asiana Airlines, 141 of the passengers aboard Flight 214 are Chinese, 77 are South Korean, 61 are American and one is Japanese.

‘Our thoughts and prayers are with passengers. We are deeply saddened by this incident,’ said San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee during the news briefing.

Appearing before reporters later in the evening, Mayor Lee said: 'It is incredible and very lucky that we have so many survivors.'

Sixteen crew members were on board the craft.

Several passengers managed to escape unscathed and could be seen fleeing down emergency inflatable slides.
A U.S. Coast Guard team was also dispatched to search the nearby water.

It wasn't immediately clear what happened to the plane as it was landing, but some eyewitnesses said the aircraft seemed to lose control and that the tail may have hit the ground.
A photo provided to CNN by Eunice Bird Rah that was taken by her father, who was a passenger on the crashed plane, showed flames and smoke shooting out of the aircraft's windows.
Rah's father, Eugene, told his daughter that he knew something was awry, saying that the pilot appeared to try to raise the plane at the last minute.


Fatal crash: At least two people have been confirmed dead in the crash at San Francisco International Airport this morning, according to local reports



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Landing: The plane failed to land safely and witnesses described watching the tail and then the wings being ripped off as it hurtled along the runway on its belly



Tail snapped: Onlookers said that the plane's tail snapped off when the plane crashed down near where the runway meets the water at the airport

In a live interview with CNN at around 9pm, Ms Bird Rah said her father was being vague about his condition when she last spoke to him several hours ago, but he is believed to be fine.

‘It was all over in 10 seconds,’ said passenger Vedpa Singh, who suffered a fractured collarbone in the crash and had his arm in a sling. 'We heard a big bang, and it was over.'

Benjamin Levy, who was aboard the plane, also said that the aircraft's final approach toward San Francisco Airport was too low.

Moments before the crash landing, Levy said that he looked out the window and spotted the piers in San Francisco Bay off the runway, and they appeared too close.

'We were too low, too soon,' he told the paper in a phone interview Saturday. 'He [the pilot] was going down pretty fast, and I think he just realized he was down too fast.'


First-hand account: Veddpal Singh, a passenger from the crashed Asiana Airlines who suffered a fractured collarbone in the crash and had his arm in a sling, said that he heard a loud bang, and it was all over



Medical care: As many as 182 passengers from Asiana Flight 214 were taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment



Frenzy: A woman (center), believed to be the mother of a victim an Asiana Airlines aircraft crash in San Francisco, is surrounded by members of the media in the lobby of the company's headquarters in Seoul



Long day: A woman reacts as a group of people are escorted from the Reflection Room at San Francisco International Airport



PR nightmare: Employees of Asiana Airlines talk on phones near a screen showing a news program reporting about Asiana Airlines Flight 214


Audio recordings of conversations between the airport's control tower and Flight 214 crew members suggested that those on the ground knew there was some sort of problem, promising that 'emergency vehicles are responding.'
'We have everyone on their way,' the air traffic controller said, according to LiveATC.net, a website that provides air traffic control audio.

However, when the plane ditched down near the water, no fire trucks were there to meet the flight, raising questions about the state of radio equipment aboard the Boeing 777.



Intact: The plane that ended up crashing in San Francisco was an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 similar to the one in the photo




Flight plan: This shot from the flight tracking site FlightAware shows the departure and expected arrival times of the Asiana plane


Sheared off: Investigators pass the detached tail and landing gear of Asiana Flight 214



Unsettling news: San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White (left) said that at least 60 passengers remain unaccounted for




Silver lining: Dave Johnson, FBI special agent in charge of the San Francisco Division, foreground, stated that there is no indication that terrorism played a role in the tragedy



A young passenger from the crashed Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 talks to the press at San Francisco International Airport before being interrupted by the police and escorted to a waiting room designated for families and friends of passengers




Charred remains: An airliner passes the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport




Disaster area: This aerial photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane, right, after it crashed, as another plane approaches at the San Francisco International Airport




Stranded: Hermann Heider, from left, sits next to Alphonse Roig, wife Christine Roig, and their daughters Marine, 15, and Lara, 12, as they wait for news on their British Airways flight after Asiana Flight 214 crash



Waiting game: Bob Merberg, foreground, sits with son Oren, 19, center, and daughter Maya, 16, after their flight to Rochester, New York was canceled after Asiana Flight 214 crashed


NTSB officials have said that at this point, it is too early to tell what exactly happened on board the aircraft. Among the questions that the NTSB 'go team' will have to answer is whether a human error on the part of the pilot played a part in the crash.

President Barack Obama was notified of the deadly incident shortly after the plane crash landed, according to the White House press secretary.

Mr Obama thanked the first responders working on the scene and directed his team to stay in constant contact with officials as they investigate the crash.

'His thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost a loved one and all those affected by the crash,' the press release posted on the White House site read.

A huge smoke cloud could be seen for miles from the site of San Francisco International and tourists in the airport terminal and on waiting flights could only look on in horror as the plane spun across the runway on its belly.

During a short news briefing in Washington DC just before 6pm, NTSB Chairwoman Debbie Hersman said that three members of an investigative team would be arriving on the scene of the crash later on Saturday evening to begin the probe.
The official also said that the investigation into the crash will likely involve representatives from Boeing and South Korea.
FBI Special Agent David Johnson, who is leading the investigation, said: 'At this point in time there is no indication of terrorism. We currently have all our resources to assist.'
Onlookers said much of the tail came off in the crash while others reported seeing the plane's fuselage spinning around as it traveled across the concourse.

The entire ceiling of the plane was destroyed in the blaze that immediately followed.

Emergency workers rushed to its aid and doused it with white foam to try and control the flames. They were able to help those who were miraculously able to escape the wreckage and were seen fleeing down emergency slides.
According to an excerpt of the radio recorded at the airport tower the plane was cleared to lane at 18.21, just over a minute later the flight called in and appears to have called for emergency assistance.

Witnesses spoke of their horror.

'The plane started coming in at an odd angle, there was a huge bang and you could see the cloud of huge black smoke,' Kate Belding, told the broadcaster.
'It was a horrible thud,' Kelly Thompson, who saw it unfold from the parking lot of the Westin Hotel added. 'The airliner bounced and then slid to a stop on the runway.'

'It didn't manage to straighten out before hitting the runway,' Stephanie Turner, who was in a nearby hotel and witnessed the flight told ABC News. 'So the tail of the plane hit the runway, and it cartwheeled and spun and the tail broke off...I mean we were sure that we had just seen a lot of people die. It was awful.
'And it looked like the plane had completely broken apart,' she said. 'There were flames and smoke just billowing.'

Danielle Wells tweeted: 'I just saw a plane crash start to finish. I can't stop crying, I can't believe this.'
One witness Jennifer Sorgen said: 'It hit the end of the runway by the water and the tail broke off at that point. It continued down the runway on its belly then proceeded to make 360 spin.'

An onlooker named Kristina Stapchuck told CNN it looked like the tires split and the plane leaned back on the tail before the tail broke off.
Others described it as 'cartwheeling' across the runway.
One witness told CNN that there didn't seem to be any preparations for a crash landing before the plane came in suggesting it was an issue that only emerged on landing.

The weather conditions were also described as ideal for San Francisco airport which can often be blighted with fog and poor visibility.

Luckily no other standing planes were caught in the accident despite dozens waiting to take off from the major airport.

The plane departed Incheon airport near South Korea's capital around 10 hours ago and was due to land at 9.45am on the West Coast.

All flights in and out of San Francisco were temporarily cancelled with several being diverted to nearby Oakland International. At 2.30pm PDT the airport said it was looking to open two runways to allow limited arrivals and departures.



Dave McLauchlan, CEO of the app development company Buddy.com, created a graphic showing that Flight 214's approach altitude into the airport was normal



Response: A huge emergency response has been launched with firefighters and paramedics rushing to assist those on board



Near the water: The plane crashed just before reaching the runaway just beyond the shoreline





Wreckage: According to local reports two were killed in the crash of a large passenger jet flying into San Francisco from South Korea


Debris: Bits of the large 777 were thrown from the plane

Airport officials urged travelers to check their flight status online.

Face CEO Sheryl Sandberg was supposed to be on the flight but decided to change her flight last minute so she could use air miles on a United flight instead, according to her post on Facebook.

'Taking a minute to be thankful and explain what happened. My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed. We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets. Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash.'


Crash landing: The plane pictured on the runway at San Francisco airport

David Eun, the executive vice president of Samsung, was on the flight when it crashed and posted on Twitter minutes later.
'I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal...' he wrote.

Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the oneWorld alliance, anchored by American Airlines and British Airways.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another. The airline's website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.

The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from JFK in 2001.
Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco to probe the crash. NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said Saturday that NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman would head the team.
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12 February 2009: Colgan Air Dash 8 Q-400; near Buffalo, NY: The aircraft crashed in a residential area, killing al 44 passengers and four crew members, along with one person on the ground.
27 August 2006: Comair CRJ-100; Lexington, KY: The aircraft was on a domestic flight from Lexington, KY to Atlanta, GA. The aircraft crashed after takeoff, killing two of the three crew members and all 47 passengers.
19 December 2005: Chalk's Ocean Airways Grumman G-73T Mallard; Miami, FL: The aircraft flying from Miami to the island of Bimini experienced a structural failure. The jet crashed into Biscayne Bay, killing both crew members and all 18 passengers.

8 January 2003: US Airways Express Beech 1900; Charlotte, NC: The aircraft crashed into a maintenance hanger at the airport, killing both pilots and all 19 passengers.

12 November 2001: American Airlines A300; Queens, New York: The aircraft was on a flight from New York to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic when it crashed into a residential neighborhood just outside JFK airport, killing five people on the ground, all nine crew members and 251 passengers, including five infants.
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