777 crash at SFO

Anybody in the area with details? Looks mostly intact with the slides out.

Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport - CNN.com

 

Photo from a passenger - so far no reports of casualties.

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The entire tail is missing aft of the rear pressure bulkhead. Seems odd.

 

The tail bits are over by the displaced threshold of 28L. Looks like he drug it in real low, and whacked the rock wall. Tore off at least one of the gear trucks too.

 

Ariel video made it look like they came in very short and caught the rock edge at the end of the runway where it meets the water.

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Unfortunate that the only charred parts of the plane is the part where the passengers sit. Rest of the plane minus the tail looks relatively fine.

 

I believe they were all off the plane by the time the fire overtook that section.

 

News and video here wall to wall.

Broke tail off on rock wall. Left nose gear on the pavement even before the numbers.


Lots got out prior to fire.

 

Also of note, it's a clear day with little wind here. From the looks of the site, pilot landed well short.

 

Hard to understand - wouldn't "it" be yelling at him, or maybe a case of "too late"?

 

Arial video with Greg Feith comments.

Approched slightly off runway centerline, nose high, hit tail on seawall. Perhaps too slow, pulled nose up, hit tail.

Asiana Airlines Plane Crashes At San Francisco International Airport


It looks like the plane was sliding parallel to the runway, but was crabbed about 30 degrees from direction of travel.

I wonder if it ruptured the belly tank... seems like the fire was fairly localized to pax area.

Most (all?) got out before the fire.

Pilots were seen walking around.

 

WikiNews already has an entry for it.

Asiana Boeing 777 crashes upon landing at San Francisco International Airport - Wikinews, the free news source

 

SFO closed. Nightmare for communters.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sfo-closed-after-asiana-airlines-crash-injured-taken-to-hospital-20130706,0,6468129.story

Very few people seriously hurt.

Looks like the tail hit the ground before the runway

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Flights diverted to Oakland and San Jose.

Kai

 

A friend of mine just text me.

She is picking her mother up from SFO and her plane had just landed.

Her mother is still stuck on the plane. No planes are allowed to move.

She is in the arrival hall and the place is a mad house. Full of reporters and media.

Kai

 

Hmm. Have to wonder if that is true of not.

 

Anyone traveling internationally from SFO today is screwed. United 869 to HK didn't make it out. Most likely they will have too fly tomorrow unless the airport opens again in the next 2 hours. Seems unlikely with the aircraft on one of the runways.

SFO is United's hub. Lots of connecting flights go through there.

 

Seems unlikely.

 

Audio from ATC. http://soberbuildengineer-com.s3.amazonaws.com/AAR214-KSFO-Crash.mp3

 

If winds are light, I would think that some flights would be able to use the runways 1-19, since it does not appear to me that any of the damage on 28 reached the intersection.

 

But their emergency personnel are all dedicated to this incident at the moment, so best to halt all traffic in and out.

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Quote:
"Saturday, July 6, 2013

It is reported that when the airplane took off from Seoul, smoke was coming from the airplane.

Anthony Castorani, has reported that a fireball formed upon the plane landing and that the plane flipped over."

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This seems to be fairly typical of witnesses... almost certainly no fireball, absolutely no flip over and VERY doubtfull that the engine was smoking on take-off (more than 10 hours before landing).

That's why witness reports are not taken with 100 percent seriousness in these investigations. And that anything with 'wiki' in front of it is NOT unadulterated fact.

 

No way. No one is leaving SFO anytime soon.

 

Interesting comparison of the decents of two flights.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sbaker/status/353611787750494208/photo/1

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Any chance the same thing happened as to the BA777 that crash-landed short at Heathrow? Melting of ice in the fuel lines reducing thrust precipitously?