Two killed as Asiana jet crashes in San Francisco Category: BLOG Published on SUNDAY, 07 JULY 2013 14:23 An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet crashed and burst into flames as it landed short of the runway at San Francisco International Airport, killing two people and injuring 182 others. Flight 214 had 307 people — 291 passengers and 16 crew — on board when it left Seoul. The aircraft apparently struck a rocky area at the water’s edge short of the runway at the airport — a major international hub, especially for flights to and from Asia. “It is incredible and very lucky that we have so many survivors. But there are still many that are critically injured,” said San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee who also sent condolences to the families of those killed and hurt. The plane’s tail “hit the runway and the aircraft veered to the left out of the runway,” South Korea’s transportation ministry said in a statement Sunday from Seoul. It was the first fatal crash involving an Asiana passenger plane since June 1993, when an Asiana Boeing 737 crashed into a mountain in South Korea, killing 68. Pictures showed the tail detached from the fuselage, and the landing gear had also sheared off. “At this time there are two fatalities,” the city’s fire chief Joanne Hayes-White said. One of the two dead “carried a Chinese passport,” and the nationality of the other victim was unclear, said Lee Jeong-Gwan, the foreign ministry’s ambassador for overseas Koreans and consular affairs, told reporters, quoting a US forensic in touch with South Korean officials. No one was unaccounted for, US officials said, revising downwards an earlier estimate of dozens. The remainder of those on board, 123, were uninjured. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said there was no indication that terrorism was to blame for the crash. source: Yahoo/ Glenn CHAPMAN | AFP News /Images: Josh Edelson and Ezra Shaw
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:36:03 +0000
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