i m here with our team at washington reagan airport. we are launching to the crash that occurred at san francisco international airport earlier today. we had a boeing triple 7 asiana flight 214 that was originating in seoul, south korea, destined for san francisco. they were coming in on runway 28 left at san francisco international airport and they crashed on landing. we have a number of investigators who are launching with us here from headquarters. they are being led by investigator in charge bill english. we have a number of subject matter experts who are going to be leading specific teams. those teams are going to be focused on operations, human performance, survival factors, the airport, airport operations, and they re going to be focusing
down at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta standing by with more information on the weather situation and as we have been reporting it doesn t appear the weather would be a problem so investigators might have to look elsewhere. right. i ll let tom speak to that. we heard from eyewitness accounts earlier. they said it was a clear, beautiful day to watch planes. that s what they were doing and when they saw this plane flight 214 coming in for a landing they say very clearly they saw it hit that sea wall right there at the san francisco bay which is where the airport is. you describe the conditions and are their accounts right? it was a clear day. the first time any incident like this happens the first thing everyone thinks of, thunderstorms. sure. micro bursts, downdraft. wind shear creating problems. really the conditions could not have been better. we ll just break them down. when you have visibility at ten miles plus, it doesn t get any better. there are two elements.
going to hear anything terribly news worthy out of that conference. it will be helpful, but they re very quiet until they have some facts. what do you make of eunice whose father was on the plane? she said he knew it was coming. she felt he knew it was coming because he said the plane in his estimation was coming in too low and the pilot tried to get the plane back up in the air at the last second. well, it s consistent with what we ve been circulating throughout this time, that for whatever reason, and who knows what that reason was, it was much lower than it should have been at that point in the landing see quens. and the only reaction is to try to get some altitude to level this thing out and reach the runway safely and that would require raising the nose, throwing on the power and doing all kinds of other things at the last minute, but apparently it was a little too late, too