actually witnessed it, assuming that they already knew. when i called 911 dispatch here in san francisco nobody knew what was going on. they were asking me several times if i actually was sure there was a plane crash and where this plane crash was, and i kept telling them it s at the international airport and finally the calls started coming in and they said okay, okay, now we re getting more calls, see you later and they were not prepared. there was nothing on the runway. there was nothing, there was no lights, nothing that we could see that demonstrated that they actually knew this plane was coming in for a crash landing. interesting. it didn t look like it was a plane in distress. anthony, i interrupted you. you said you saw nothing on the runway that would let on that this was an emergency landing. it looked clear, you described this flight coming in, this boeing 777 as far as you know to be flight 214 from seoul, south korea, as you are watching this plane come in for a land
the slide deployed so clearly the evacuation has been from the left side of the airport but the plane just about all destroyed on the ground and certainly the main landing gear has collapsed. it s unclear how many people may have been on board. it is possible, richard, as you and i were talking that this flation asiana airlines may have come from incheon, an airport out of seoul, south korea. almost certainly. almost certainly i would say it originated out of seoul in south korea, and looking at these pictures it s a 777 200 lr i m guessing because i can t see an over the wing, but it doesn t necessarily mean it s not. looking at the it will take some hours to work out obviously the nature of what has taken place, why this happened, and