san francisco, there were 291 passengers aboard the boeing 777. that s what we are getting from kntv. again on the left side of the screen, folks, you can see a number of those folks, a number of people aboard that plane were able to climb to safety using the two chutes that are jetting out from that asiana airlines plane. that plane, we re told, left seoul, south korea yesterday. it was scheduled to land 11:15 local time in san francisco. about 2:15 eastern. obviously. as it was approaching runway 28, something went terribly wrong. we know right now in not sfra, the weather is just fine. we heard from a meteorologist from the weather channel, conditions there as that plane approached the runway. conditions were partly cloudy. the winds was somewhere between
investigation. and i think they ll be pretty quick with figuring out prel preliminarily what happened. peter, stay with me for a little bit if you can. at some point, we do expect to get some more information from the airport in san francisco. we heard from them about an hour and 20 minutes ago. but let s run down a list first of all of things we do not know. at this point we do not know officially how many people were aboard that aircraft. we don t know exactly how many people were onboard. there are reports from kntv that at least two are dead. up to 70 are injured. but, again, that number has not been confirmed officially. that s from kntv. so we don t know the number of dead or the number of people hurt as well. so we re still waiting for official information with regards to some important parts of this crash landing.
federal, state, and local partners as they respond to this event. again, according to our affiliate on the ground there in the bay area, kntv, two people are dead. up to 70 are hurt. we re still waiting on a precise number regarding exactly how many people were aboard that airplane. but this much we can tell you. that it was an asiana airlines aircraft. it was headed here from seoul, south korea. bound from seoul. it departed seoul yesterday at 4:35 p.m. it was scheduled to arrive at terminal one in san francisco, scheduled to arrive at 11:15 local time. just after 2:00 here on the east coast. as that plane approached runway 28, something happened. at this point, obviously, we don t know what that something is. but we do know according to sources at least that the pilot did not make a distress call. there was no distress call from
according to our affiliate on the ground, kntv, two people are dead. at least 70, again, at least 70 are hurt. we are waiting on another update from the san francisco international airport. we haven t heard from them now in about an hour and 10 minutes. that was the last time we got an update. right now, though, you are looking at if you look closely here, and, again, i am not nor do i profess to be an aviation expert. but i can tell you that looks like it could very well be the tail of that plane. we heard from a number of eyewitnesses earlier who said that they saw the plane they saw the tail of the plane clip the runway and bounce or roll several times. but, again, that looks like and we just saw the south korean flag there emplablazoned on the side of the tail. but it looks like that could be the tail of that aircraft that
welcome back. we continue to monitor this breaking news in san francisco. you are looking at what s left of a boeing 777 operated by asiana airlines. it crashed as it was trying to land around 11:15 local time. asiana airlines headed here from seoul, south korea. it was bound for san francisco. that airport shut down for the most part. although two runways have reopened in the past two hours. but planes that were set to land there were diverted. the airport has told folks or has asked folks to call their local airlines, if you are supposed to be picking up someone from san francisco. our affiliate on the ground there, kntv, reporting that two people are dead. up to 70 folks have been hurt.