Plane crash lands at San Francisco International Airport
An Asiana Airlines flight has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport, a federal aviation official said. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford said the Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco Airport while landing.
A video clip posted to Youtube shows smoke coming from a silver-colored jet on the tarmac.
Passengers could be seen jumping down the inflatable emergency slides.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the plane was coming from South Korea and was supposed to land on runway 28 left at San Francisco International Airport.
She said the sequence of events was still unclear, but it appeared the plane landed and then crashed.
*Aircraft Down* #SFO
— SoCal EMS and Fire (@SoCalEMSFire) July 6, 2013
Many reports of nobody trapped, just burn victims. pic.twitter.com/6NpSl7ZB6h
Witness Kathy Muhler told local news station KTVU that the plane was just about to land when its tail came off.
And another shot of Korean Airlines plane crash at SFO. From friend there. #sfo pic.twitter.com/XOdZsuw7zL
— Bryan Navarro (@navarrobryan) July 6, 2013
The airline’s website says its Boeing 777 can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.
No information is immediately available concerning casualties, although passenger David Eun posted an eyewitness account in which he said most 'seem fine'.
just realized I have a picture of the actual crash. holy fucking shit. pic.twitter.com/5TnOX96Gsi
— stefanielaine (@stefanielaine) July 6, 2013
Literally just witnessed a plane crash start to finish. I cannot stop crying I can't believe this pic.twitter.com/tmew7KqnFG
— Wanielle Dells (@DanielleLWells) July 6, 2013
Plane crash at #SFO. View from my house. This looks bad! pic.twitter.com/toK6QatycE
— Marc Escuro (@mgescuro) July 6, 2013
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