the fire department was there quickly or there wasn t a lot of fuel on board. tom, you know, again, you have covered transportation for a long time. you have been on a lot of planes, done stories about a lot of planes. when you look at the image to the left and you see the fuselage, while obviously, it was engolfed at some point and they are dousing it with whatever they use to put the flames out, the tail is off. it looks like there s been substantial damage. what does that tell you? the fact that the tail is off the boeing 777, what does that tell you? you know, it looks as if it looks as if it s possible the tail hit the runway first, almost as if we had some sort of tail dragging, the nose was high and the tail dragged like they had a sudden loss of altitude, power or control that caused the plane to come tail down first and the rest of the body slammed
would have 20, 25, 30 years ago. you know, what comes to my mind, of course, is that air canada flight that caught fire. i m dating myself now. this is a good 25, 30 years ago. and literally, the plane was gutted and very, very quickly, burned to just nothing. today, we are seeing planes are do seem to give people those extra few minutes necessary. not only that, the seats themselves are constructed in such a way to allow a little more give so that you re not immediately breaking hips and backs and legs on impact. all of this is very much an ongoing scientific, you know, effort. one other note there. it looks to me like, you know, you hate to engage in conjecture here, craig, it looks to me like he hit that runway very early on and then very quickly came off the runway. there into the center median area. tom, stand by for me if you
room? okay. what is the tweet? reported that the plane landed at a bad angle. flipped. flipped. then exploded. that s according to tweets from folks in the area. these are new stills that we are just getting in of this asiana airlines of this boeing that crash landed. again, if we could lose the banner, guys, you can see the chutes. you can see folks who clearly walked off that plane. we know, according to tom castillo, this type of plane can hold up to 450 passengers, roughly. we can see what appears to be at least two dozen or so getting off the plane. we do know, also, that there are
malfunction at london s heathrow airport. there s a near term history of people getting out of these plane crashes alive because they are built to hopefully give people time to get out, with stand fire and heat, to give people those precious seconds and minutes to get out alive. as they deploy the chutes, it s a good sign indeed. stand by as we show folks the boeing 777 that has crash landed at san francisco international airport. it sounds like we are having phone issues with tom. while we get that straightened out, i want to read a tweet. we have a tweet from a witness in the area, a witness who was who was at san francisco international airport. again, this video, by the way is from youtube, we are told. do we have the tweet, control
chutes. tom castillo, the man that covers transportation joins me live via telephone. you have spoke to someone at the faa. what did you hear? caller: can you come to me for a minute? we have a blow up of this airport. this is san francisco airport. we believe he was coming down the runway, 28 left. he was coming in on this runway here, as close as you can get to the terminal, the terminal here. as he landed, at some point, lost control of the aircraft or in some way this ended in a sort of firy crash. he is relatively close to the emergency infrastructure there at the airport. we can go back to the video and you can see they were there. it would appear rather quickly, fire apparatus there. yes, you can see there is flame and fire damage but not completely. the entire thing isn t engolfed. yeah. we might hope that is because