throughout the morning. low cloud ceilings. investigators say at this point it s way too early to speculate on what brought down flight 1354. right now on the left side of your screen you are looking at live pictures from our crew on site just off the airport property. you can see that there are no homes in the immediate area where the plane went down. it s a grassy field just outside the airport perimeter fence. trees and power lines were knocked down and the two pilots onboard the aircraft, the only two people onboard, were killed and pronounced dead at the scene according to the birmingham fire chief. no one on the ground was injured because of this sparsely populated area. the crash is not interfering with airport operations according to local officials. u.p.s. confirms this aircraft was an a-300 series cargo jet. one of 53 in operation with the
gooders. but for the do badders, if only they can come up with that type of technology. say something like duct tape that they can put over their license plates if they were on their way to do something. until that future comes we are all screwed. but you know what, you cannot obscure your license plate. that s against the law. that should tell you that license plates are outside of your car because they are meant to be read. people are talking about this being a violation. your license plate is outside your car and cops have been doing this for years. before we move on, i want to talk about the airport. when someone else gets into your car, a valet to park it, doesn t your expectation of privacy probably go away and there is some kind of consent involved? i don t know if the tsa is completely right in this, but what do you think? i think they are out of bounds. it is not an expectation of privacy. there they are conducting a search based on essentially nothing. if you are going to
responders on the airport property. we know from the flight great recorder the plane was flying 40 miles per hour slower than it should have been. we know from the cockpit voice recorder the crew tried to abort the landing but it was too late. tonight growing questions about the pilot at the controls. while that pilot had lost nearly 10,000 hours flying 747s and other wide bodies he only had 43 hours on the triple 7 this, landing was part of his training and his first, ever, into san francisco on that particular model craft. dramatic pictures from inside of the plane showed the extent of the damage. today, some of the first responders describe chaotic scene with smoke leaking jet fuel as a race to get to frantic passengers trapped in seat belts. it s possible one of the two teen-aged girl splaiz survived the crash but was run over by a responding fire engine. an autopsy is being conducted
responders on the airport property. some of that we ve already talked about yesterday. i have seen and heard some reports about a 4,000-per-minute 4,000-foot-per-minute descent rate. they have reviewed the radar data. and the group that reviewed the initial faa radar data have indicated that there s no abnormally steep descent curve that s been detected in the data that they have. our power plants team has conducted an on-scene examination of the two engines. they indicate those preliminary evaluations indicate that both of the engines were producing power at the time of impact. and this is consistent with
first. investigators with the national transportation safety board say this landing went from routine to disaster in less than ten seconds. they were cleared to land by the towers. and then there was the accident sequence and subsequent launch of the emergency responders on the airport property. reporter: we know from the flight data recorder that the plane was flying 40 miles an hour slower than it should have been. we know from the cockpit voice recorder that the crew tried to abort the landing but it was too late. while the pilot at the controls had logged nearly 10,000 hours flying 747s and other aircraft, he only had 43 hours on the boeing 777 and at this landing here in san francisco was part of his training. dramatic pictures from inside the plane show the extent of the damage and earlier today, some of the first responder describe