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
so, imagine what did those people experience when they were on board? well, you can expect that they probably heard a loud thumping sound. they probably heard a scraping noise when the belly of the plane went up against the ground there. perhaps injuries. we don t know. but that is very possible in a situation like this. but here s the good news. it looks like judging from this picture the fuselage for the most part is still intact. however, you do see that burning there. so, we know that although it did complete its trip from seoul, korea, to san francisco, there still is going to be fuel in this plane here. but they are required to have about an extra 45 minutes to an hour worth of fuel there, so that would explain why we re seeing some of the burning that happened there. but, again, don, we re waiting to hear from the faa as to the people that were on board, but as you look at those pictures,
or perhaps even japan? i think they re looking at what the information is out of seoul, probably out of incheon. we re looking at the moment at the 777 looking awhat the registration number of the air draft was, none of which confirmed. until i do i d be reluctant to tell you about the manufacturer or where did it come from recent flights or sanything like that. all that information is available and we re efforting at the moment as we continue to watch exactly what might have happened but obviously coming from incheon, crossing the pacific, crash landing at san francisco. and inchon meaning seoul, south korea, that s a very, usually a very crowded route from seoul, south korea, making its way to san francisco. again we don t have any confirmation of how many people
very far, but you helped really to paint a picture as we tried to sort things through based on the images we re receiving and the eyewitness accounts. thank you so much. folks if you re just now joining us, my colleague don lemon is going to pick it up here, but we re looking at the remnants of a boeing 777 flight 214 making its way from seoul, south korea, and crashing at san francisco international airport and we re hearing all sorts of eyewitness accounts about how the plane was breaking up upon landing when it seemed as though it was a perfect-looking landing until it appears some saw the nose pitched up and the tail hit the runway and then things started breaking up. i m going to bring in my colleague don lemon who is joining us from new york and, don, i m going to allow you to pick up the coverage from here. some extraordinary images we re seeing and we still don t know how many people were on board and how many people are able to really walk away as a result of this accident.
are on board. let s get perspective, asiana are an extremely well-known, reliable, respectable airline. incheon airport in seoul, in south korea, one of the world s leading airports, regularly in recent years has been voted number one as the airport. asiana one airline that regularly is in reviews. looking at the aircraft trying to figure out whether it s a 777 200 or the exact nature, we ll have those details in the next few molts for you. okay, of course, and you know, as far as we know, richard, as we continue to try to get some more information, all we know is this was an emergency landing and this crash taking place so one would be led to believe that a control tower there, san francisco international airport was ready for this emergency landing, might have already had in place