so, eunice, let me ask you this, you said that you have saw you have seen ambulances going taking people off the plane or out of the area. have you seen people being transported? no, i see the ambulances coming back and forth the freeway exits that leads directly to the airport coming off the only exit here to the nearest hospital had is literally a couple miles down the road. eunice, you told my producer that your father knew it was coming. what did you mean by that? so, i asked him, you know, what happened. and he texted me saying the flight was landing too low and tried the pilot tried to raise the plane at the last minute but was too late. i knew it was coming looking outside and saw that the plane was going too low. we hit the runway from the back part of the plane and bounced very hard. lost control for a few minutes before it was stopped.
again, did your dad say or did he appear to think that most of the passengers made it out okay? he did. i asked if there were any serious injuries and he did say some, like i said, i don t think he wanted to tell me all the full-on details that were going on. but, i mean, my heart really goes out to the families who aren t able to get in contact with the passengers on board including the crew. i think the authorities or sfo should at least reach out, you know, try to organize this a little more in reaching out to the families. eunice, her dad was on board this plane and sent in these incredible pictures. we re glad your dad is okay, eunice. we re glad you re okay, thank you. thank you for getting with us here on cnn. again, these are pictures all coming from people who were on board the plane, coming of them coming from cnn i-reporters, look, this is an incredible picture. can you imagine being on this plane and having to escape that? and that s exactly what happened. eunice s fa
multiple sources throughout the world, again, we have the worldwide resources of cnn on top of this story including our richard quest there in london. we also have a reporter in seoul, south korea, where this flight originated. we have aviation expert jim tillmon who is joining us as well, a reporter in washington who is reporting on the ntsb and the faa portion of this. the official portion and what they re doing. a reporter at san francisco international airport who s actually inside the terminal now. eunice byrd is on the phone now. her father was is on the phone. her father was on that asiana plane and took these photographs. eunice, first off, how is your father? these pictures are unbelievable. how is your father doing? hi, don. my father s doing fine, thank god. he s doing all right. we ve been actually texting for the last hour and a half, two hours, and from where i m sitting right now i can actually see the wreckage right in front of me, and the line of fire
0 in any form of aviation accident. and, richard quest, i m going to need you. i m going to kneeled the rest of our experts in the field as well. don t go anywhere. this is cnn breaking news. i m don lemon here in new york, i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the folks who are watching cnn international and other networks as well, we are following breaking news here on cnn. the breaking news is that a large commercial airliner has crashed and burned just a short time ago at san francisco international airport. you re looking at a number of pictures there, some of them live, other pictures that were taken from passengers who were fleeing that plane. it is a passenger plane. it is a boeing 777. it s from asiana airlines which is a large south korean airline. the plane took off from seoul and was headed to san francisco international airport and on its approach. that s when this horrible incident happened. here s what we know according to the faa