the inspector general looked at that and that the american people, your viewers and all viewers understand that s true, but he also found things we were never accused of which is real slopiness and has to be focused on. if i were director, i d be very concerned about it. significant errors and you say it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. he s right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the proceed y proceedures built. it s hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those because he s right. 17 things that either should have been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently. it was not acceptable. you makes it sound like you re a bystander, an eyewitne eyewitness. you were the director of the fbi while this was going on, sir. sure. i m responsible. i was wrong. i was overconfident as director in our procedures. it s important that a leader be
boeing 777, asiana airline 214 from seoul, south korea, landing there in san francisco, according to christina, what she saw it appeared in her view that the tires slipped. she said it looked like the plane rocked back as it was landing, the tail came off as it hit the ground there, and then she says other parts of the plane started coming off and it started to break apart and then swing around and that s a fascinating description because as we spoke with jim tillmon who is an aviation expert and retired pilot, when i asked him just looking at the debris field and just hearing the description of at least one other eyewitness that we spoke to and what they saw as the plane was landing, it was jim s assessment that potentially it may have been that the tail may have hit the ground with the nose pitched up, that it could be that perhaps that landing was taking
remarkable situation as you point out people were strolling off that airplane is unreal. yeah, it is unreal. you know, jim, you said, of course, we worked together for a long time in chicago, i know your expert in both weather and aviation. we re glad to have you on cnn today. i want you to listen to this eyewitne eyewitness, anthony castrarni and then we ll talk, okay? actually it looked like it was coming in very nicely. it was pitched nose up maybe about three degrees. and as it was coming in, it came in. it touched down the runway a little earlier than i ve seen most planes coming in and touching down, but the moment it touched down, the nose was still pitched up. the nose wheel never hit the ground yet, and what you typically see smoke from the wheels coming down on that initial touchdown, there was a larger plume of white smoke. you heard a pop. and then you immediate i had saw a large brief fireball that came
with what just happened that was an eyewitness there anthony caserani reporting to cnn and fredricka whitfield just a short time ago what he witnessed. these are live pictures you re looking at from san francisco international airport. look at that. you see debris spread across the runway there. and, again, i want to tell you that we are reporting this. we have a team of people reporting this from around the world. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world watching cnn including in south korea as well. we re following some breaking news here for you on cnn. here s what we do know, okay? a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago at the san francisco international airport s where you re looking at these live pictures now. it is a passenger plane. it s a boeing 777 from asiana airlines which is a large south korean airline.
that is being flown by a crew that plants it slow maybe low in the slot and trying to stretch that landing sequence continuing to make proper compact with the runway. that s fair enough. jim tilmon, thanks so much. don t go far. listen to this next person i m about to talk to, christina stepchuck, she was an eyewitness of this crash. she was on a plane. christina, you were on the tarmac on the plane when you saw all of this unfold right before your eyes? yes, my plane was about to depart, when it was about to depart the plane landed and i saw the whole from when the plane was in the air to the ground and when the whole crash happened.