all right until final moment and just happens to drag the tail through that barrier. and then you can see what happened afterwards, once he lost control of the rutter or anything else and then looks like he has in the cockpit, there s nothing in there to tell him what has really happened. it s not an instrument on the instrument panel that says, hey, we have lost a part of the airplane or whatever else. i mean, if he looks out the window, he can t see anything like that. he doesn t know. we re seeing a whole lot more than the pilots are. jim tilmon, we ll go to the ntsb press conference. stand by, please. injured in the crash. i want to personally thank the 225 first responders who did an amazing job. the incident could have been much worse without their
commercial operations like this, it s fairly routine. you have to scratch your head to think the last time you had a crash landing like that. certainly in the u.s. i think that s right. there is no good reason these days if you re going to film a grocery store 24/7, you probably should have video cameras strategically located at airports to help in understanding what may have happened or more importantly, prevent accidents happening before they end up like this. it s interesting. jim tillman, as i walk around the building at work, one camera there is a camera, the lobby there is a camera, why not on runways, jim? there is no good reason for not having cameras there. i can t think of one good single reason except we haven t done it. they think they use one video every 50 years so it s not worth the effort.
around san francisco. six of them in critical condition at this hour. two teenagers who were on the plane died but amazingly more than 100 people walked away without a scratch. what caused asiana airlines 777 to slam in to the ground, break in to pieces and catch fire? the flight data recorders are now in the hands of the right people. and they ve got a million questions to answer. their investigation might take a long time but it begins today. the chairperson, the chairwoman of the ntsb held a press conference just a short time ago. joining me now is jim tilmon, a retired airline pilot. dan rose is also here, a pilot, former military pilot and flies privately for himself. he owns his own plane and knows what he s talking about, as well. he s also a aif yigs attorney. first to jim on the phone, you have seen this video. is it a valuable tool for investigators right now? what does your experience tell
something was going on to keep those wings level and to make that effort that it did come through in the cockpit just successful enough to keep the airplane belly down, that made a big difference in the survivability of the situation. you ended up with the aircraft almost as it if it was on its landing gear that twisted around and ended up where it was, and people were able to exit the airplane through the emergency exit doors. jim tilmon, appreciate you joining us all evening, all day long. you ve been giving us great information. appreciate your expertise, okay? remember the gentleman who tweeted ow the picture saying, we just crash landed? the tail of the plane has flown off, broken off, and we re leaving the plane? our lori sigel has been in contact with him. we ll hear from lori, hear what he had to say to her.
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