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Boeing 777 Crash @ SFO, 2 Killed, 49 Critical, FBI Says No Terrorism
- Published_at:2013-07-06
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:UkeTube
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- description: On Saturday July 6, 2013, at 11:26 a.m (Pacific Time), Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety as flames tore through the plane. Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping from thick billowing smoke. And amid the chaos, some urged fellow passengers to keep calm, even as flames tore through the Boeing 777's fuselage. As investigators try to determine what caused the crash of Flight 214 that killed two passengers Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, the accident left many wondering how nearly 305 of the 307 passengers and crew members were able to make it out alive. "It's miraculous we survived," said passenger Vedpal Singh, who had a fractured collarbone and whose arm was in a sling. San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White told a news conference midday Sunday that six people are in critical condition in hospital and 19 in total were hospitalized. She credits the professionalism of the crew for the small loss of life. "I think they had a very well trained crew," noted Hayes-White. "From what I'm hearing, there wasn't a mad rush and people were literally trying to help each other and as orderly as possible to [get down] those chutes." Speaking about the area where the two teenagers were found dead, Hayes-White said that there was "buckling of the seats and...parts of the plane were very badly damaged and sort of collapsed onto the seats." May have approached too low Investigators took the flight data recorder to Washington, D.C., overnight to begin examining its contents for clues to the last moments of the plane before the crash, officials said. They also plan to interview the pilots, the crew and passengers. "I think we're very thankful that the numbers were not worse when it came to fatalities and injuries," said U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. "It could have been much worse." While authorities have said very little about the investigation at this early stage, clues have emerged in witness accounts of the planes approach and video of the wreckage, leading one aviation expert to say the aircraft may have approached the runway too low. Since the plane was about to land, its landing gear would have already been down, Barr said. It's possible the landing gear or the tail of the plane hit the seawall, he said. If that happened, it would effectively slam the plane into the runway, he said. Noting that some witnesses reported hearing the plane's engines rev up just before the crash, Barr said that would be consistent with a pilot who realized at the last minute that the plane was too low and was increasing power to the engines to try to increase altitude. "When you heard that explosion, that loud boom and you saw the black smoke ... you just thought, my God, everybody in there is gone," said Ki Siadatan, who lives a few kilometres away from the airport and watched the plane's "wobbly" and "a little bit out of control" approach from his balcony. "My initial reaction was I don't see how anyone could have made it," he said. Inside the plane, Singh, who was sitting in the middle of the aircraft with his family, said there was no forewarning from the pilot or any crew members before the plane touched down hard and he heard a loud sound. "We knew something was horrible wrong," said a visibly shaken Singh. He said the plane went silent before people tried to get out anyway they could. His 15-year-old son said luggage tumbled from the overhead bins. The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco, airport officials said. The airline said there were 16 crew members aboard and 291 passengers. Thirty of the passengers were children. San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the two who died were found on "the exterior" of the plane. "Having surveyed that area, we're lucky that there hasn't been a greater loss," she said. Courtesy of the CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/07/07/san-francisco-plane-crash-passengers.html Asiana Airlines http://flyasiana.com/gateway/gateway_en.html
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