RSSBREAKING: Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight from Seoul, South Korea Crashes at San Francisco International Airport Runway (Update: 2 Dead, At Least 61 Injured)
BREAKING NEWS: CBS News is reporting that the FAA has announced that a Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea to San Francisco, CA has crashed while making an emergency landing on the runway at San Francisco Airport. The airlines stated that 291 people were on board, including a group of vacationing Korean school children, but there was no official word on any casualties. According to reports, witnesses said they heard a loud bang, the tail came apart from the plane and black smoke billowed into the air, visible for miles. According to a witness via PJ Media, around 11:20 a.m. the plane was just about to land — its landing gear had come down — when the tail of the plane came off,” San Francisco airport is currently closed, not accepting any inbound planes or allowing outbound traffic.
A federal aviation official says an Asiana Airlines flight has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford says the Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco Airport while landing on Saturday.
Asiana Flight 214 was arriving from Seoul.
There has been no official word yet as to the passenger injuries.
Photos and video of the aircraft show fire and smoke from the aircraft
RAW VIDEO can be seen here.
More LIVE VIDEO feed from CNN.
UPDATE I: As reports at KTVU, the San Francisco Fire Dept. indicated it was aware of at least 12 passengers transported to local hospitals.
Meanwhile, according to dispatcher for the San Francisco Fire Department at least 12 people crash victims have been taken to local hospitals. It was not known how many passengers have survived the crash.
Firefighters and emergency crews from San Francisco, Redwood City, San Mateo responded to the airport and dosed the burning plane with foam to extinguished the fully engulfed aircraft.
Meanwhile, officials have closed all access to the airport and arriving flights were being diverted to nearby Oakland International .
UPDATE II: Many more updates and pictures of the accounts at PJ Tatler.
UPDATE III: At least two dead, 12 injured in Boeing 777 crash at SFO. Now being said that up to 48 injured. many have been treated for burns. Has been updated to 61 injured.
UPDATE IV: Two dead, 130 hospitalized, many missing in San Francisco plane crash.
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It appears from the debris field that the flight came across the bay at too low an altitude and the pilot tried to pull up before full power returned to the engines. The result was the tail dropped and struck the rock barrier at the waters edge destroying the horizontal and vertical stabilizers.
They are very lucky that most were able to deplane without injury.
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