An Asiana Airlines commercial flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday (a while ago), forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
The Boeing 777 was supposed to land on runway 28 left at the airport, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown. She said the sequence of events was still unclear, but it appeared the plane landed and then crashed.
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. Television footage showed debris strewn about the tarmac and pieces of the plane lying on the runway.
Update
-- Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea, to San Fransisco crash during landing at around 11.30am PDT
-- Boeing 777 carried 291 passengers; flight had 16 crew members on board
-- At least 10 people listed in critical condition, including 2 children
-- 141 of the passengers aboard Flight 214 were Chinese, 77 were South Korean, 61 were American and 1 was Japanese
-- San Francisco fire chief: At least 60 people remain unaccounted for, but not presumed dead
-- Flight departed Incheon airport near South Korea's capital around 10 hours ago and was due to land at 9.45am on West Coast
-- Eyewitnesses reported seeing plane's tail tear off and the fuselage spinning around
-- FBI says no indication that terrorism was involved in the crash
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