on what you re at right now. this is an asiana airlines flight headed from seoul, south korea. it left seoul 4:30 yesterday. it was set to than in san francisco around 11:15 local time. obviously 2:15 here on the east coast as it was approaching runway 28, something went terribly wrong. that plane crash handed. it is resting to the left of runway 28. passenger were seen jumping down the emergency slides. at this point we have no official word on the number of injuries. kntv the affiliate there saying there were 291 people on board. at one point we heard from air traffic control that the pilots did get off the plane. we ve heard from an eyewitness. we heard from an eyewitness on the air a short time ago that it
investigative team on the ground focus in on any kind of mechanical malfunction or failure that may have occurred that caused the crew to have a problem manipulating or flying the airplane. it is obvious that the aircraft touched down short. it looks like the tail has struck the seawall. the airplane would have had to be in a very nose high pitch attitude. so they re going to want to know why the crew got themselves into that situation. whether it was a mechanical problem or they just got from a flight operations discipline issue, whether they got behind the proverbial power curve. that is, they were on approach. they got the airplane too slow. they tried to increase the pitch attitude to keep the airplane flying to the runway and struck the wall short of the runway. we call that an undershoot. that tends to be an issue with airline type operations that the board will be looking at. also, according to kntv in
yesterday around 4:15. it was scheduled to land in san francisco around 11:15 this morning when something happen. again, at this point, it is still very early. we don t know exactly. i am told we have a witness via kntv. one of our west coast affiliates. i couldn t tell if it was upside down or right side up. so about a minute afterwards i think we re having a problem with our affiliate, kntv. that was someone who witnessed this thing happening. we heard from an eyewitness an hour, hour and a half ago. someone who was at a nearby hotel. and she told us that she saw the tail of many plane clip the
doing? you know, i m not sure. i mean, we saw the plane rolling quite a bit. i assumed that the wings had broken off. but now seeing photos of the run wearing it is clear that didn t happen. but really most of the focus for me was watching the tail break off. stephanie turner, an eyewitness to this plane crash in san francisco. again, 291 passengers aboard that plane, according to kntv. stephanie, thank you. thank you. i understand you heard that. i thought she was saying the tail, when it broke off, it cartwheeled down the runway. i m not sure the plane did. every indication we ve had suggests that the plane itself slammed down hard right there on the runway or down in the middle section. i ve got this. federal sources are telling us, there is no indication of terrorism or criminal activity.
a standard called 16g, which means 16 times the force of gravity so that we found previous to this passengers were being severely injured and killed because they were being ejected from their seats. also the interior of the planes no longer you know, in a fire, no longer emit toxic fumes. it s the design improvements over the past 20 years have been extraordinary, and it s resulted in very, very safe aircraft. one of the things that struck us earlier was a local fire official there on kntv was talking about the response to this crash landing. and he indicated that at this point, it looks like it took the