Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport

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777 crashes in San FransiscoA Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, an FAA spokesman told CNN.
Flight 214 had flown across the Pacific Ocean from Seoul, South Korea.

Anthony Castorani, who saw the flight land from a nearby hotel, said he saw the plane touch the ground then noticed a larger plume of white smoke.

“You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft,” he told CNN. “It began to cartwheel.”

Video from the scene posted on YouTube showed dark gray smoke rising from the plane, which appeared to be upright.

Evacuation slides could be seen extending from one side of the aircraft, from which there was no apparent smoke.

There were a few clouds in the sky around the time of the crash, with temperatures around 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

The airport is about 12 miles south of downtown San Francisco.

Asiana Airlines is one of South Korea’s two major airlines, the other being Korean Air.

CNN’s Dana Bash, who was heading to the airport at the time of the crash, said she noticed smoke emanating from the runway. She said she had not noticed any arrivals or departures since the crash.

 

CNN

Update: The airline which is   based in Seoul, South Korea stated on its website that its Boeing 777 can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.

Update 2: Emergency services have reported that 290 passengers, 12 crew members and one infant were all on board the plane at the time of the accident.

Police and fire services say everyone who was on board has been accounted for.
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6 responses to “Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    All got off?? Lucky ….

    1. greetings 5th,
      hope all is well in your neck of the woods, even though they are reporting 2 dead as of now most of us are saddened by any life loss as we can easily relate to being on a flight and wanting to arrive safely yet somehow we seem to be more conditioned and desensitized to larger scale human loss, something to consider is that the lives lost in Syria are equivelant to 345 jumbo jets crashing in a 2 year period with no survivors whatsoever!

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Hi Geo. I seem fine, thanks. And yes … accidents seem to drag out different feelings on the death end … perhaps because there’s no quick answer for many of them – and yet it’s tragedy in all cases for the ones left behind – but somehow there’s less relevance when it’s bombs and guns taking them down in another country. Maybe a thought on occasion such as: ‘There, but for the grace of God go I’.
        When it’s an earthquake or tidal wave wiping out a few thousand, all any can do is say ‘shiiittttt’ and stand in awe – but one needlessly stupid death caused by a weird brain and we feel outrage and cry for revenge. I guess Nature is God – can’t yell at it.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    All got off?? Lucky ….

    1. greetings 5th,
      hope all is well in your neck of the woods, even though they are reporting 2 dead as of now most of us are saddened by any life loss as we can easily relate to being on a flight and wanting to arrive safely yet somehow we seem to be more conditioned and desensitized to larger scale human loss, something to consider is that the lives lost in Syria are equivelant to 345 jumbo jets crashing in a 2 year period with no survivors whatsoever!

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Hi Geo. I seem fine, thanks. And yes … accidents seem to drag out different feelings on the death end … perhaps because there’s no quick answer for many of them – and yet it’s tragedy in all cases for the ones left behind – but somehow there’s less relevance when it’s bombs and guns taking them down in another country. Maybe a thought on occasion such as: ‘There, but for the grace of God go I’.
        When it’s an earthquake or tidal wave wiping out a few thousand, all any can do is say ‘shiiittttt’ and stand in awe – but one needlessly stupid death caused by a weird brain and we feel outrage and cry for revenge. I guess Nature is God – can’t yell at it.

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