possible. perhaps some overhead bins opened up in the process. again, this is all speculation of what comes along with this kind of crash landing. right. of course, all the details will come out as we hear more from the faa. and, rene, also getting from excuse me, from airline sources here, some of them pilots are saying, if the plane had actually cart wheeled, it would have broke apart. it would not look like it does now. they are saying is the plane pretty much the wing is intact and in a cartwheel, the wings would not be intact. rene, stand by, if you get more information from federal agencies, we d love to hear from you. i m going to go to a witness now, jennifer sorgen, tell us what you know. we heard from other plane they saw the plane cartwheeling. again, the wings appear to be intact. what do you know? i wouldn t say it was actually cartwheeling. we saw it hit, the tail broke off almost immediately upon hitting what appeared to be the
continued to proceed down the runway on its belly and that s when it did the 360 spin. so, jennifer hang on, richard, hang on richard, and jennifer. just because i wanted to be completely clear here. we don t know what happened. this is your assessment of what happened. you mean it spun around, not flipped around, correct? that s correct. it seemed like more of a spin than a flop. the wings did not break off in some type of - it definitely was somewhat airborne when it did just spin-around flip. but, yeah, it definitely wasn t necessarily a cartwheel. it seemed like the wings were still intact. don? yeah, go ahead. this is jim. before we do this, i want to read this. this is from boeing plane, this is a tweet from boeing planes.
it says our thoughts are with everyone affected by today s incident at sfo, we stand ready to assist the nt bb. again, that is boeing. jennifer, stand by. richard quest, stand by. go ahead, jim tillmon. what happens once the tail separates from the airplane, you have no control, lateral control, that is the twisting of the airplane around its axis. you do have a little bit of control perhaps still within the wing structure to keep the wings relatively level and that was one of the reasons, the fact that it was level, that you may have a lot of people survive this because had the airplane gone upside down or done the cartwheel like what was described before, we would have not only more structural damage, we may have had a lot more injuries on board. what happened this thing was spinning like a top around right. as opposed to cartwheeling like has been described before. got it.