And came down hard a second time. Again, this man speaking from his hospital bed at San Francisco General Hospital. He said it was just incredible that virtually everyone was able to get out of that plane before it began filling up with smoke. We do know two people died. More than 180 were treated at nine local hospitals for fire and burnrelated injuries. Ten people at last report listed in Critical Condition. Two of them children. We understand that 11 children were treated at the Trauma Center at San Francisco general. The crash site itself has been secured by federal authorities who, by the way, have ruled out terrorism as a cause in all of this. The ntsb teams are on the way. Theyll be combing through a very wide debris field when they arrive there at runway 28l. Piece es of this planes tail ae strewn everywhere, and they will also be looking into reports that we are trying to confirm here tonight about some special lights that reportedly were not working on this specific runway ye
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there are, i think, three different engine combinations that the triple 7 has, and i don t know, you know, whether they were the same or different. it s a great the triple 7 is a great plane. it s a great plane as a passenger. how about to fly it? it s a grate plane to fly it. what a horrible scene. i don t think passengers should be afraid. frankly i felt uneasy in the d c-10, but the triple 7 is a beautiful aircraft. great for passengers. yes, it is. denny, thank you very much. you re welcome. thanks, greta. any time. new information coming to fox bit minute out of san francisco. a news conference is expected any second in which we ll get the latest. we ll take you live when that happens. part of another news conference from just moments ago. ladies and gentlemen, we ll get started. i m doug yakel. i m the public information officer for the san francisco airport. i m joined right now by assistant deputy chief dale
777 aircraft. denny, thank you for joining us. is there anything as you look at this debris scene and with your experience in the cockpit of a triple 7, what are your thoughts? well, it looks to me after they showed the picture of the overrun and that rock burm just beyond the end of the runway that at least a part of the aircraft struck that before it ended up on the runway and slid off to the left side there. whether that was the tail of the aircraft or the landing gear, i don t know, but we did see the landing gear laying on the runway in some of the views, so that s what it looks like. at least part of the aircraft struck well short of the runway. would it make a difference in general if the ils is out and you have clear conditions? i assume that s easy not easy, but for a trained pilot, a 777 pilot, is it easy to land that plane with the ils out on a
i imagine they ll be debriefed, too? have they pretty much made it through this incident without harm? reporter: well, we don t know that. we don t know that for a fact. again, we have two dead, a number of critical injuries. whether the pilots are among them, that number, we don t know. hopefully we ll find out in just a few minutes at this next press conference, but authorities have been releasing what information they can. they remind us all this is a very fluid situation. of course, we hear that during these breaking news events, that the numbers can change. again, where the pilots are, if investigators have had a chance to speak to them, if they re lying in a hospital bed, we just don t know at this time. well, it s certainly, you know, ten people in critical condition and two obviously dead, a very tragic situation for families tonight. claudia, thank you. on the phone now is denny cox, retired airline captain, who has experience flying boeing