was saying lr but it s an e.r. extended range aircraft, that s what asiana uses across the pacific. the delivery date was 2006, so it s a young plane by any definition for this sort of route. we can see the forward ladder extended. we can see it s in landing configuration. something happened which caused the aircraft to tail strike or to come down heavy which then has left the landing gear collapsing which has caused the aircraft to spin round and multiple times before leaving the runway. and what the investigators will focus on is the is those final moments of flight and then focus on the evacuation, the fire, which looks to have been fierce at the top of the fuselage. okay. just getting new information in, richard, from the 7faa, flights
it sounds like it is not going to be something that comes in this particular accident. the tail strike is when the airports are over the run weigh, the pilots don t get the nose up too high making a soft landing to impress the passengers and they strike the tail. but in this situation, it locks like the belly of the aircraft strike that doik and once that happen nothing would save them. thank you for joining us. and we appreciate the insight. and continuing coverage of the crash landing of a boeing 777 in san francisco. confirmed two people are dead and several unaccounted for. and up next, we ll talk to someone who witnessed the crash. stay with us. uh-oh! guess what day it is??
to burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. to my knowledge, there s never been a fatal crash involving a 777. the weather picture appears to be clear. this would have been a visual landing, meaning the pilot was not dealing with clouds, smoke or haze. simply seeing the runway and landing. very unclear what could have gone wrong. the pilots are generally the
the runway. so where the tail is is short of the runway, never mind the thousand feet he s supposed to have before he comes in. kpleer clearly, he s out of control there because the nose went up and the tail tipped back. so that presents the normal kind of landing and causes that tail strike. peter goals is back with us, managing director of the ntsb. pete, again and pardon me if i m thank you very much. thank you, bob. peter, are you there? yes, i am. pete, i can t recall whether you re able to see those images. i have not seen the latest ones. but from what you ve described, it s fairly common, that when a plane is on its belly coming down, it s going to behave in that manner. but, you know, the critical thing, i think, that people ought to be focusing on is just
there were two suicides in the wake of this incident, a japan airlines employee who was working with victim families. and an inspector who issued the certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plan after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we ve seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american flight 191, aloha flight 243. we ve also seen what can happen when a plane has a design flaw. but those flights are the exception, not rule. every day, 3 million passengers