the faa, they are calling this, quote, a crash landing. we re not making up that term. the faa is calling it a crash landing. the tail broke off the plane. top of the fuselage, if you look at it there, burned. pieces of the wings and other part parts flying off the plane. hook look at this plane, do you see a tail? no, the tail of the plane fell off, came off we believe upon impact here. there should be a press conference at any moment here at the top of the hour, we re waiting officials in san francisco to come up to the podium and give us that press conference and we ll carry it live for you here on cnn. you re not going to miss it. and then at the bottom of the hour, in about 29 minutes, there will be a news conference in washington, d.c., from the ntsb, the national transportation safety board. the coast guard has transported one person linked to this incident in san francisco to stanford hospital. again, that s according to the coast guard. the person we spoke to at the coast gu
so, eunice, let me ask you this, you said that you have saw you have seen ambulances going taking people off the plane or out of the area. have you seen people being transported? no, i see the ambulances coming back and forth the freeway exits that leads directly to the airport coming off the only exit here to the nearest hospital had is literally a couple miles down the road. eunice, you told my producer that your father knew it was coming. what did you mean by that? so, i asked him, you know, what happened. and he texted me saying the flight was landing too low and tried the pilot tried to raise the plane at the last minute but was too late. i knew it was coming looking outside and saw that the plane was going too low. we hit the runway from the back part of the plane and bounced very hard. lost control for a few minutes before it was stopped.
you have the series 200 of the plane. that s not so much in use, being sold anymore. it s now the 300 series which is an even longer version, and boeing only last week sorry, last month, the palace air show, boeing has announced that it is going to consider and it will look to make a larger version of the 777. not the 787-10, but they are looking to make a 777-x which is an even larger version of that plane. it is boeing s it is at the moment one of boeing s if not boeing s single most successful aircraft, most popular aircraft. airlines can t buy enough of them. richard, as we await the press conference at the ntsb at the bottom hour here, as you know and as you report when these airplanes come into existence, when they test them and they go on the market. there are always issues. do you remember any issues with the 777 that would hint at a problem here? no, no, not at all.
this plane. one of the passenger s daughters said he expected it, mr. thompson he expected it, mr. francis, excuse me, and it appeared to him the plane came this and it was really low. it came in too low and he tried to pull it back up when this happened. does that make sense to you at all? what do you make of that? i make sense that that could have happened, but until the investigators get there and start to look at the flight data recorders and the cockpit voice recorders and whatever film was taken, i don t think that one passenger is in unless he s a very experienced pilot and had a unique perspective, i don t think that you can draw conclusions like that at this point. there are so many different things that could have caused this. and for this 777, where are the flight data recorders? is one in that satail section?
again, all of this still unfolding in san francisco. and that is that plane, sitting on the tarmac at san francisco international airport, the top of the plane, the fuselage, is burned. the wings pretty much had intact. most of it intact. you can see some of the pieces of the wing there have fallen apart, and i would imagine some came completely off when this plane crashed. the wing on the right side of the plane is still there. the one on this side as you can see from this passenger photograph, is gone. this was taken from a passenger who left this plane fleeing and also tweeted out this picture on twitter saying that, you know, i can t believe the tail section of the plane is gone. the plane is smoking, and people are leaving the plane. i want to go now to cnn s richard quest, who is live now in london. richard, you heard from doug k yakel, the airport spokesperson, what do you make of his