Plane Crashes At San Francisco Airport [VIDEO]
A Boeing 777 airplane crashed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday afternoon killing two people on board.
The tail came apart from Asiana Airlines Flight #214, a Boeing 777 from Seoul, South Korea, as it landed at around 2:30 p.m. eastern time today, according to KCBS-TV. The craft flipped upside down, coming to stop on the runway on its back.
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed the fatalities and added there are 60 hospitalized.
All 290 passengers and 16 crew members on board the jet are accounted for, according to radio transmissions. Some can be seen in video walking away from the plane. The Los Angeles Times says 48 on board are being treated at hospitals for their injuries. "You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft," a witness told CNN. "It began to cartwheel." Pictures on Twitter initially showed plumes of black smoke billowing into the air. KTVU reports the plane's roof were charred and ripped off. Witnesses tell CNN they could see parts falling off the plane as it made its approach. Passengers were coming off the plane using inflatable slides on the side of the plane. A search and rescue was being done of San Francisco Bay with boats and helicopters. Among the passengers on the plane are Samsung Executive and former AOL and Google developer David Eun who began to tweet from the crash scene.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posted that she was supposed to be on the flight but switched to United at the last minute.
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