place. the pages clearly vulgar, they are not. thanks to our panel today. i'm eric shawn. keep it right here on the fox news channel. >> gregg: this is a fox news alert. you are looking at live pictures of san francisco international airport. fox news has confirmed through the faa that a boeing 777 operated by asiana airlines crashed upon landing. we can't give you any further details. we don't know how many people were on board. it's one of two top airliners operating out of south korea but this is an asiana airlines. boeing which has been in production since the mid 1970s and has the capacity

of 314 to 451 passengers. it is boeing's one of the top selling, best selling models. we don't know how many people were on board when it crashed upon landing. those are the only details that we have. obviously you can see smoke rising from the ground. it's unclear whether parts of the plane have gone into the water there. if you have flown in and out of san francisco international airport, you know it is essentially surrounded by water when you land or take off. we tell you any more details that the faa has confirmed that the airlines jetliner has crashed at san francisco international airport. we're endeavoring to get further details. >> heather: hello. i'm heather childers and welcome.

>> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. we're following another story out of egypt where tens of thousands of people are gathered for dueling protests raising new fears of all out civil war. let's take a look at the live pictures. two of them, fox news has confirmed that they have named an interim prime minister days after the overthrow of mohammed morsi. security sources also reporting that gunman shot and killed a coptic christian priest in sinai region after 30 people were killed overnight in widespread violence. let's go to greg palkot streaming live from cairo with the very latest. greg? >> reporter: fox news can confirm that ebaradi is set to be the interim prime minister. we are told he will be sworn in. former head of the ieaa, noble peace prize winner is

well known. he should put a public face on the changes here as the pro secular democracy and with ailing economy she pro free market capitalism that could be seen as a good thing. islamist led muslim brotherhood the party of the ousted egyptian president has already flatly rejected him saying that he has nothing to do with the government involves him. over all it's not too popular here domestically. so what remains to be seen what this appointment will have. followers of the muslim brotherhood gathering in very big numbers in cairo as more clashes have been reported today nationwide including the killing of a coptic priest in sinai. there is an increase in sectarian violence. christian minority has backed the ouster of morsi and morsi government has

been accused of permitting violence against christians. meanwhile, finally behind me, they are building. fears again of more violence tonight in cairo. clashes not far from here last night but so far we haven't witnessed them in tahrir square itself the battling of the pro and anti-forces as we have seen in the past couple years. again, there is a greater call tonight for more people out on the street tomorrow and greater fear it could accelerate in a violent way. back to you. >> gregg: greg palkot, thanks very much. >> heather: as the crisis in egypt first erupted this week, it appears secretary of state john kerry was on his boat in nantucket. they are denying the story. later reversed the position

after this picture emerged. state department spokeswoman finally admitting this, quote, while he was briefly on his boat on wednesday, secretary of state kerry worked around the clock all day including participating in the president's meeting with his national security council. meanwhile, arizona senator john mccain urging the obama administration to freeze egypt's $1.5 billion in u.s. military aide. >> we cannot repeat the same mistakes we made at other times in our mist by supporting the removal of freely elected governments. so i believe that the aid has to be suspended, that the egyptian military has to set a timetable for elections and a new constitution, and then we

should evaluate whether to continue the aid or not. >> heather: and context for you. the number of times that president obama has suspended aid to countries under the foreign assistance act, some aid was cut to the african republic when the government was depositioned in rebellion. also mali lost half of its aid during a military coup that same year. honduras lost some of the aid during a military coup that was back in 2009. so how should the u.s. responded to the crisis in egypt? rick grenell a spokesman for the last four ambassadors to the united nations. he will give us his insight coming up later in the hour. >> gregg: new developments to tell you about ongoing crisis in syria. the main western backed syrian coalition elects go

a new president. he has ties to saudi arabia. the post has been empty since april whether the former president resigned. new reports of fighting in the hamas and damascus area. and in turkey police firing tear gas to try to break up anti government protests. crowds are attempting to ber enter a park that was center of nationwide protests last month. earlier the governor of istanbul any public gathering would be confronted by police. >> heather: now to the latest on the man seeking asylum somewhere in the world. edward snowden has been holed up in a moscow airport for the last two weeks. it in our it seems there is not one but three latin american countries extending him an open

invitation. elizabeth, what country is the latest to granted asylum? >> reporter: just today, move rales says she welcome in his country. bold statement not long after his plane was forced to land after they searched the aircraft. they also announced they can grant him asylum but and the president made his political asylum offer during a speech during the anniversary of the country's independence. [ speaking spanish ] >> i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in his homeland of bolivar and come and live here away from the persecution of america. >> reporter: similar to nicaragua, it's not immediately clear that there were any conditions to the offer. >> heather: speaking of

nicaragua, do we know more of his demands? >> and while ortega says he is willing to grant the same offer it would be only under, quote, certain circumstances. ortega didn't elaborate. >> we're an open country. we respect the right have sigh aluminum. we are respectful of the right to asylum. [ speaking spanish ] >> it is clear that if the circumstances permit it he would grant him aside limb here in nicaragua. >> a russian foreign ministry official reports that snowden can't leave moscow's airport until he showed issued foreign travel i.d. that could be granted by a country that has offered him aside limb. >> heather: elizabeth, we'll keep our eye on it. >> gregg: i want to go back to before we get to weather

right now. we're getting further details on the crash of this asiana airliner. there are the pictures and you are seeing obviously some smoke coming from the plane. it crashed landed apparently -- apparently according to ttvu, it crashed while landing at the airport after its tail came off after it was touching down on a runway. the plane was just about to land. it's landing gear had come down when the tail of the plane suddenly came off. again, this is according to ttvu, channel 2, after woblgs for a minute the aircraft flipped upside-down coming to a stop on the runway on its back. the plane reportedly is a boeing 777. it was coming from south

korea according to flight tracking information. we don't know how many people were on board that plane. it carries as many 451 passengers, maximum. the triple 7 as it is known is the world's largest twin engine jet. one would anticipate that there would be injuries if not fatalities but we cannot give you any of those details right now. according to a witness the plane was about to land. it's tail came off after wobbling for a minute. the aircraft came to a stop on the runway on its back. obviously there are rescue crews there trying to get to people who may still be trapped inside, but we just don't know the casualties yet. obviously a horrible plane crash. this is one of the two top airlines from south korea

and this was coming to san francisco international airport from south korea. asiana airlines the conditions were pretty good let's talk to janice dean about the weather conditions. >> right now we are looking at partly cloudy skies. conditions are pretty good in terms of weather, but looking at the latest satellite radar imagery. we do have some cloud cover that is coming up. they have the marine layer and fog layer that comes off of the ocean. right now, partly cloudy skies as i look back the last couple of hours, we did see some cloud cover move into the san francisco region. winds are light and you can see the past 12 hours if you look at the satellite imagery, clouds are moving into the san francisco area. very cool waters here. sometimes we get some fog and some clouds cover. again, we're not dealing

with severe conditions. we weren't dealing with a storm system like that. obviously we'll continue to monitor the weather, partly cloudy skies, winds very light at around 9 miles an hour and temperatures around 66 degrees. so, gregg, they will look at weather in terms of whether or not this was something that could have hampered the landing or not. what i can see in the last couple of hours, certainly looking at cloud cover but conditions were calm relatively speaking around the san francisco area. >> gregg: we're going to continue to follow the events. a plane has crash landed. it is a boeing triple 7, largest twin engine jet in the world. we don't know how many people were on board or nature of casualties but according to a witness, according to ttvu, the plane's tail as it was about to land came off

causing the plane itself to wobble. it skidded along the runway, flipped upside-down coming to a stop at the end of the runway on its back. rescue crews obviously on the scene, we're endeavoring to get more details about this plane crash. we're going to continue to follow it and let you know as soon as we get more details. >> we're following this story. a train carrying crude oil caused a massive explosion and evacuate go an entire town. where that is happened is coming up next. 4th of july fireworks story gone horribly wrong. company at the center of the accident may have a history of similar incidents. prosecution in the george zimmerman murder trial resting their case but have they convinced the jury and what challenges still lie ahead for the defense. >> it is my opinion that he

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>>. >> gregg: brand-new video tape of this plane crash while landing in san francisco international airport. we're learning it was boeing 777, asiana flight from korea. no word on the number of people on board and nature of casualties or death. we're going to bring those developments as we get them. i want to show you this. it runs 22 seconds. this is video that has been posted on youtube. it appears to be in the immediate aftermath of the plane crash. , my god.ten.

>> gregg: that is a 22 second clip from youtube it would appear it came from the terminal and passenger arriving or about to take off taking the videotape of the immediate aftermath of the plane crash. a witness, according to television station ttvu, says the plane was about to land and landing gear was down but suddenly before it touched down, the tail of the plane -- we can't tell you what part -- but the tail. plane came off causing the plane to wobble. it skidded along the runway and flipped over and came to a rest on its back.

emergency crews on the scene under taking rescues and we'll try to get you the details as we receive them. we'll continue to follow this breaking news story. we can tell you that this boeing 777, triple 7 as it is known, it is capable of carrying 314 people to 451 depending upon which 777 model is being used. >> heather: there are on social media the emergency fly have been deployed and passengers were seen exiting on those. some passengers have been able to get out. we know there are no injuries or any reports on injuries at this hour, but as we continue to look at this video. clearly, what can be described as a bad plane crash. >> gregg: absolutely.

obviously the plane is landing and everybody in their seats, buckled in, flight attendants make sure of that but nevertheless when the plane wobbles and flips over and ends up on the back, you worry about the fire hazard. heavy smoke is still coming from this plane. one of the things they would likely do is foam down the plane to make sure it doesn't explode. then try to get to the injured passengers as quickly as possible. one hopes that the injuries are minimum. the nature of the smoke, it's very difficult for us to tell whether or not the plane has split into pieces. if it flipped over on its back, one would assume it sustained considerable damage as it again crash landed at san francisco international airport. >> heather: you were mentioning earlier, the airport it's about 12 miles

south of downtown san francisco. this clearly will be causing some airport delays there and across the country as people travel on this busy 4th of july holiday. we certainly hope that the people that were on board the plane are okay. we see safety personnel are there trying to make sure they can get them off of that plane safely. >> gregg: you were mentioning south of san francisco, it's very close to candlestick park which is south of san francisco. it's surrounded by water for takeoff and landing. there is an industrial complex there as well as an office park. the terminal itself is really out of the way of downtown san francisco as you sort of heading down highway 101 heading south. it is just off to the left in the bay part of san francisco, not on the ocean side but the bay side of

san francisco. it is surrounded by water as coastal airports often are for safety purposes. it is considerably away from the residential population of san francisco. again, asiana airlines, boeing 777 from south korea according to flight tracker, it left south korea and final destination was supposed to be san francisco international airport, sfo as it is known. >> heather: you said this earlier, our producer told us the faa is confirming the crash happened which clearly it has. another eyewitness saying it happened around 11:30 a.m. at san francisco international airport. the plane was just about to land according to this witness and you've said the landing gear had come down, according to one eyewitness when the tail of the plane came off. the aircraft flipped

upside-down according to this eyewitness and came to a stop on its back. if you take a look at the video, specifically the youtube video that we saw just a moment ago. it would appear to me that it is upright. >> gregg: i can't really tell. in the youtube video you could see it a little more clearly. it appeared to be upright. these are initial reports coming from from wits and such. we are waiting to find out exactly what happened and hearing officials. hopefully we can get in touch with someone shortly so we can bring you actual confirmed information as to what happened to this plane. >> gregg: again, it could carry as many as 450 people depending on what model the boeing 777 that it is. i believe it was united airlines that first made use of the boeing triple 7 back in 1995.

it's the world's largest twin engine jet. it carries a great many people, hundreds at a time but we just don't know about the flight manifest, how many people were on board, but one hopes for the best in terms of casualties. no details on that. just in the amount of time we've been impoverishing covering this breaking news story in the last 25 minutes, it's gone from dark black smoke to now just very light white smoke. i believe that is the foam that we were talking about that seems to be around the perimeter or part of the perimeter of the plane there. one would hope they have all of the passengers out by now. >> heather: we've been reporting information as it has been coming in from ktvu. according to the redwood city fire department that three alarms have been called. many of their crews from

the redwood city fire department responded, as well. they are reporting that passengers were in need of burn treatment. that according to ktvu, a television station there in the san francisco area. according to them, some of the redwood city fire department, there were passengers in need of burn treatment there at the scene. >> gregg: redwood city is the closest large town or small city other than san francisco. it is just past the san francisco international airport as you head south along highway 101. this airlines has had a couple of major crashes since it was founded in 1988. one of them, july 26, 1993, a domestic passenger jet slammed into a hillside in southwestern south korea killing 68 people on board.

that was bowing 737, it was down from seoul, south korea and it crash landed in heavy wind and rain about 25 miles from the airport. another crash occurred in 2011, july 29th, two people died when an asiana cargo plane crashed in the waters of southern coast of south korea after it reported a fire in cargo compartments. we don't know the make of that particular plane. this one is a boeing 777, undetermined number of passengers on board, but, heather, you were mentioning the redwood city fire department saying they had passengers with burn injuries. >> at least one report coming from ktvu. you were talking about the background of the boeing

777 itself. it entered service back in 1995, it's flown almost five million flights according to information we just received here, five million flights, 18 million flight hours. it's been used significantly as we take a look at this. >> gregg: i think you are right. it does appear part of the plane appears upright. not withstand ago witness, it flipped over on its back and came to a rest but would it appear the plane is in pieces. can't quite see it but it looks like that. >> heather: you can see the front of the plane there in the foreground. >> gregg: it looks like the back half the plane is in a different location. it looks split in two. >> heather: it does look like that. as we've been reporting emergency crews on the scene taking care of the

passengers making sure that those that survived are off of the plane and tend to go injuries. >> gregg: these airports have their own -- let's look at it here. i'm getting a better picture. looks like it is in one piece. it looks like it is one piece from a different photo that i'm looking at on a small handheld device. it's really hard to see from this angle, as well. it may be intact. most of these airports maintain their own rescue crews and fire departments and being assisted obviously by other fire departments, redwood city i imagine, san francisco sent its fire department, as well. now it does look, some of the smoke is clearing it's in one piece. >> heather: now -- there is a better picture. dr. bernie gross, former

n.t.s.b. member under the reagan administration. are you joining us by phone. are you seeing these pictures and what can you tell us in terms of your experience you believe has happened to this plane? what would be the situation with the passengers who were on board? >> well, the thing is, one of the later versions of boeing aircraft. it sounds like very capable airport in terms of emergency response and everything else. if the aircraft is integral and one piece which apparently it is, that bodes well, i think, but i would like to know what the weather is. i haven't had a picture in front of me. so you can help me. >> weather has been pretty good. >> it's sunny and few clouds, nine miles per hour winds, 60 degrees, does that help? >> that is good. if it landed fairly well down on the runway, we know that?

>> gregg: it's being described toward the end of the runway. what we are seeing more clearly the picture moving closer to the plane is is a lot of burn damage on the top of the plane where the passengers would be sitting. one wonders the nature of those injuries. we are getting reports of burn injuries, but getting out of that plane would have again critical? >> and particularly if had you a long flight and you got elderly or infirm people or you have tired people. to get them out of the aircraft, depending, if it was not fire close to the airport, you have to think about what caused the ignition of the fire as it ran down the runway. >> from looking at these pictures, we can tell you that the burn damage that we're seeing is primarily behind the cockpit area toward the middle of the

end of the wing area. tail end of the plane itself does not appear to have burn damage on the top. does that tell you anything about with a may have happened here? >> the galley is where the fire started from the sound. in the back of the wing is still integral and no difficulty i think there would were a lot of people able to get off. you had a number of emergency exits after the wing. they will be sliding off of there. any kind of emergency, you have another problem and that is getting people to jump on to -- is on tail and gear did not collapse then it's got enough distance for the escape to come down those chutes but people are reticent to jump. so you have injuries at the bottom -- but it bodes

well. is there fire. >> gregg: no the fire is out. you can see black soot damage. the landing gear appears to have collapsed as it skidded along the runway. doctor, according to an eyewitness this so website that around 11:20 a.m. i would assume that is san francisco time, the plane was just about to land. landing gear had come down when the tail of the plane came off. what do you make of that? what do you make the tail coming off? >> someone says it looks like the aircraft is integral. is it broken in two or not. >> gregg: no, it looks like the back end where the tail would be is gone. >> it is, is it open at the back end. >> heather: it did look

like it was open actually. we had a shot of that and tail end of the plane, it did look like it was open. >> then you are going to have quite a few injuries if that is true. no tail, are the slides deployed and people getting out? >> there is one slide on one side what it appears of plane toward the front that was deployed. the other side it does not appear deployed in front of the wing. >> gregg: now we're getting a better picture, the tail is gone. it look like there is an opening on the back end? >> whole tend left on the runway, i guess. >> gregg: the entire tail is gone? >> that would not bode too well, it collapsed on the

gear. >> gregg: it looks like the gear collapsed and the belly of the plane is now on the ground. have you ever heard of a tail coming off in flight? >> no, not even if it had a violent maneuver and apparently it didn't as it approached. it's odd -- unless there was something exploded inside the aircraft to break it off. those aircraft shouldn't come apart. >> heather: i can tell you this, a shot earlier of the top of the plane was the burn area is, you can actually see water being shot into the cabin there. at least in the middle portion there, where the wings are and you see the burn area, that is open. there is a hole in the top of the plane that looks like it is running all the way across from one ring to the other on the top of this plane? >> back at the tail?

>> heather: in the middle portion of the cabin between the two wings. >> gregg: it looks like it simply burned off. in other words, the top of the plane opposite the belly burned off? >> you know, there is some precedence about this, this is asiana airlines, the thing about whether they are up to snuff as much as they might be. if the aircraft hit the runway hard enough to snap off the tail that is one thing. then they might not survive and hasn't. skipped down the runway but would slow down fast but then do you see and they had fire on top of that, right? >> gregg: yes. it looks like they are pouring water on the top of the plane. i would imagine by now all the passengers are out.

it doesn't look like anybody is being pulled from the wreckage at the time. >> that is odd. >> heather: the pictures, like like this was really bad fire on board this plane. it's black, the entire cabin area, zoomed in, from the we said all the way back to just behind the wing, completely black, burned out, open to the sky on the top of this plane. as gregg was saying, tail end gone and open. >> i'm picking up a video of myself to see it. the aircraft is collapsed on the runway, it's not lined up very well. >> gregg: adjacent to the runway in a dirt area. >> heather: only one emergency chute looks to

have been deployed. >> wow! they have a lot of fire retardant on the airplane. they must have responded fairly fast but it look like the top of the aircraft has fire damage and the tail is gone. that is amazing to me. you see that the right wing is also, wing tip knocked off. so it took a violent hit right there. >> gregg: what appears adjacent to plane a triage area where medical personnel together with firefighters seem to have gathered and maybe treating some people still at that location. taking others to area hospitals. there are several nearby not only in redwood city but in san francisco as well which is just up the highway 101. they may have used some emergency aircraft as well,

helicopters for emergency flights for some of the patients. >> it will be very interesting if the air traffic control conversation between the air draft and the controllers. i don't know whether they declared an emergency. that is one thing. if the emergency was a surprise, that is quite something else. >> heather: as people are watching. let's bring them up to speed. a plane has crashed at san francisco international airport. we know that that this is was a boeing 777 identified as asiana flight 214 coming from south korea according to flight tracking information. we did not know how many people were on board this plane. we do know there were initial reports from witnesses it happened around 11:30 a.m. it appears that the landing gear, at least initial reports from witnesses, have h come down when the tail of the plane came off. you are looking at triage

area set up near the crash site. the plane has significant burn damage. you can see damage to both wings. at least one emergency khuitd deployed as crews worked to take care of the passengers aboard this flight. >> gregg: dr. gross, thank you for your insights. >> according to a witness according to ttvu, the witness said the plane, it's tail -- its tail apparently came off when the landing gear when the tail of the plane suddenly came off. after wobbling for a minute, according to this witness the aircraft flipped upside-down coming to a stop on its back but clearly that is not the case because the plane is on its belly. its top is burned out

and -- there you see some of the debris from what i presume was the tail. it seems to be three pieces. one at the top of the screen. other two down near the right hand corner and those are lying on the run way. as chopper shot pulls out a little bit, we'll be able to see the proximity to the wreckage of the plane. again we want to bring into our conversation, robert mark who a commercial pilot, editor of jet flight.com who has flown into this airport. talk to us -- are you seeing the same pictures and give us your thoughts what may have happened? >> i am seeing the same pictures. i think that was the question that was in the back of my mind exactly where the tail portion of the aircraft portion was. to find it in the runway safety area short of the approach end of the runway,

if it fell off, obviously that is where it came lose but also possible they may have hit very hard, made a hard landing enough it could have severed the tail. that has happened in the past. it's not very frequent because as your last caller mentioned these airplanes are extremely strong. to find the tail where it is and i can't quite see how far down the runway the rest of the fuselage is. but once the tail came off, pilot didn't have much of a controllable airplane. >> gregg: explain the function of the tail and how important it is for the ability for pilots to control a plane? >> there are two portions of the tail. there is what we call the elevator which controls the up and down pitching of the nose and the rudder which kind of controls the left right movement of the aircraft. us a you approach the end

of the runway you are still flying and what pilots will do, bring the control wheel back to pitch the nose up so they don't touchdown to the nose gear. they touch on the mains and they slow, they slowly release the pressure on the wheel, but there is still steevg with the rudder. i'm seeing where the aircraft is now. i didn't travel very far from the time the tail came off. again without those controls, they wouldn't be able to do much with the airplane except hold on. while there is noseable steering, if it hit hard enough to sever the tail it probably collapsed the gear as well. >> heather: i have a question. in terms initial pictures that we were receiving from this plane crash. you could see thick black smoke billowing from the

scene? >> that is pretty bad.i'm lookio right now of the cabin. that was a very bad fire in there. to have those two sections completely burned and blackened through, that was an intense fire. as we may have mentioned, it looks to me like one, maybe two slides are extended of triple 7, i think it has six or eight. that means they couldn't get those doors open because the doors were, or nobody could get to them. i don't know how many people did survive, but again, the fire was pretty intense here. >> gregg: asiana flight has crashed while landing at san francisco international airport today. faa isn't really giving any information about injuries

or fatalities. we can't pass that along. it's obviously very large plane as you can see. according to some of the data we have on this boeing triple 7, it can carry as many as 451 passengers depending on which model it is. it's not immediately clear what caused the crash. we mentioned the witness who said it lost its tail. we'll be getting additional information. there was a video clip posted to youtube showing smoke coming from the jet as it was like on tarmac. some passengers, now i'm getting this from kgo san francisco, channel 7, passengers could be seen jumping down the inflatable emergency slides. so that is good news to

know that some passengers were able to get out. one hopes that everybody was able to get out. when you look at the full extent of the fire damage on the top of the plane, boy, this is a bad crash, a bad ensuing fire. >> heather: we don't know what came first. what caused that tail to come off of that plane. if it was something that happened initially in the cabin of this plane, perhaps a fire or explosion then caused the tail to blow off. or if the tail came off and because of the landing of the plane, hard landing the fire or explosion happened after that. those are all a lot of questions we'll have to uncover. i do know this. this is coming from the airline itself. their website, airline is based out of seoul and according to them their model carries anywhere from

246 to 300 passengers. a very large boeing 777 coming from south korea. all of this happening around 11:30 a.m. san francisco time. >> gregg: there you see the aftermath just adjacent to the runway is this asiana bowing 777 and triage area is next to it. looks like they are still pouring water or fire retardant onto the plane. it doesn't look like anybody is still being pulled out of the wreckage, but according to kgo, one of the inflatable slides deployed and people were seeing jumping down the slide to safety. the redwood city fire department says that they

brought personnel there to treat burn victims. we would imagine given the burn damage to the top of the plane, that is certainly the case. >> heather: earlier we were talking about the history of asiana airlines. they had two major crashes, this would be the third. since the airline was founded in 1998, one of those in 1993 a crash that happened -- that apparently was a domestic passenger jet that slammed into a hill that happened in southwestern south korea killing 68 people on board. that was an asiana boeing 737 and then again a second crash happened just in 2011. with asiana, two passengers died when a cargo plane

crashed into waters off the southern coast of south korea. apparently that in that particular crash there was a report of a fire in the cargo component. so a compartment of that plane in 2011, caused from a cargo fire in the cargo compartment. this would be the third major crash involving asiana airlines. we don't know the extent of injuries nor do we know how many passengers were on board. >> gregg: weather conditions appear to have been calm. partly cloudy skies, light winds, temperatures in the 60s, 9 mile-per-hour winds so fairly calm having lived in san francisco for about eight years. it gets quite windy in the city. it's calmer to the south which is where this airport is located.

there you see the debris field, obviously n.t.s.b. investigators if they are not already on the ground they do have an office there, they will be there picking up and going through the debris to try to figure out what happened. there you see the back end and it is absolutely missing the back end of the plane including the tail and three sections of the tail section including the rudder, the elevator are in a different part of the runway. let's go to rick folbaum standing by live with details about the boeing triple 7. >> tough to look at the pictures and people that were on the flight and how they are doing right now. let me get you caught up on this particular airplane model. triple 7, guests referred to it as that. boeing has been making since the mid 1990s.

they are the worldest's largest -- world's largest jet airlines. this is one of the best selling models. part of the popularity it is very fuel efficient come cared to other wide body jets. it's cheaper to fly. these planes are used more and more for long haultrans ocean flights. and that is what happened and airlines all over the world are flying boeing triple 7's. we're not find anything reports of previous problems of the plane's tail but that will be a key focus in the investigation. >> gregg: thanks very much. >> we're pause for a moment to let our fox stations join us. >> we continue to look at the debris field. it looks as though some of

it is in the water. tail section appears to be on the front end of the runway. >> this is a fox news coverage of a plane crash in san francisco at san francisco international airport. i'm gregg jarrett in new york. there you see part of the debris field from an asiana, a boeing 777 that begin in seoul, south korea and destination, san francisco international airport. it happened at about 11:20 this morning when this jetliner crash landed. it was in the process of landing. according to a witness that spoke with ktvu in san francisco the witness said the tail of the plane came off before the plane had its landing gear down,

touched down on the runway. you begin to land over -- you approach the runway over water. it looks like some of the debris field is in the water. it may be the case that the plane begin to break up literally moments before it touched down. it looks as though the landing gear has collapsed. this witness said that the plane's tail came off. that the plane skidded along the runway and flipped over, but there you see the plane is actually on its belly. it came to rest adjacent to the runway and there you see an enormous part of the plane on the top side where the passengers would be sitting is open to the air, burned out. fire retardant around the perimeter of the plane of the tail section, that is where the tail should be, rudder, elevator is missing which seems consistent with

the one eyewitness. we don't know how many people were on board this particular plane. the boeing 777 can carry 314 to 451 passengers depending on which model it is. we don't know which model it is. there you see on the runway, three parts of the plane, not too far from the body of that plane. >> heather: we do have some information coming from the faa at this point. this is from the federal aviation spokeswoman laura brown. this boeing 777 was supposed to land on runway 28 lefty airport. san francisco international, sequence of the events is still unclear, but it appeared the plane landed and then crashed. once again we are getting a lot of reports from eyewitnesses who saw this happen around leb thirst a.m. san francisco time said the --

11:30 a.m. the landing gear went down and the plane crashed. it wobbled and crashed on to its side. we can see from the video there at least one emergency khuitd was able to be deployed but significant burn damage across the top portion of this cabin. now joining us on the phone is scott brenner, a former senior faa official, are you looking at the same pictures we are seeing here? >> yes, ier: in terms of your experience, what do you think happened to this plane and perhaps more importantly at this hour the passengers who were on board? >> i think most importantly, most important thing we can learn from this, listen to your flight attendant when you are on an aircraft. it seems like the flight attendants did exactly what they were supposed to do getting everybody off before it could really

catch on fire. from what i heard, everybody got on the plane safely. >> heather: where are you hearing that? >> just from folks i'm talking to. >> gregg: are these faa officials? >> they are just officials. i don't want to speculate. >> gregg: you regard it as reliable information? >> i do. >> gregg: and everybody got off? >> yes, but again this is all early information which does change. >> heather: have you been told how many people were on board the plane and told anything about injuries at all. we did have initial reports there were some passengers suffering from burn injuries? >> no, i have not gotten anything on the injuries or how many passengers. i was informed that everybody got off safely. >> gregg: that is stunning given the wreckage we are looking at and from eyewitnesses. have you heard of a tail coming off of a plane

coming off as it is landing? >>, no i would not. i would caution the viewers, early eyewitness reports are frequently wrong. just because people are really -- they really don't understand what they are watching and not prepared to see what they are going to see. if you look at that debris field, that seems like -- if the tail came off the debris field was moving forward down the runway. it's also curious the faa is saying that the aircraft was scheduled to land at a different runway and it shifted at the last minute. >> heather: what do you mean. if the tail of the plane came off, repeated

san francisco international airport. this is the wreckage of an asiana jet airliner, a boeing 777 that crashed while landing and then you could see the burn damage, caused by a fire that hit the top part of the plane. we don't know how many people have been injured. we know of no fatalities. of course we were just talking to scott brenner who suggested that his information everybody got out safely which heather is, that is remarkable. >> heather: i'm heather childers as we continue to take a look the breaking news coming out of san francisco international airport. this flight coming from

south korea landed on runway 28 left. as gregg said, we don't know how many passengers were on board. it would be truly remarkable if all of them were able to get off of this plane safely. we certainly hope that was the case. in the video that you are looking at we've seen -- at first there was thick black smoke billowing from the scene. that turned to a lighted gray smoke. then when that cleared we could see significant burn damage across the top portion of the plane. cabin area where the majority of the passengers would have been sitting. at least one emergency khuitd deployed. there you can see there is no tail on the end of this plane. it is actually strewn about further down the runway. it's in three pieces and tail end of the plane also open. >> gregg: all flights out

of san francisco cancelled in the aftermath of this crash landing. you know, we don't know again the nature of injuries or any fatalities but we'll endeavor to get that information for you. top of the hour, there is the wreckage of an asiana bowing triple 7, world's largest twin engine jet. this jet crash landed or crashed while landing at san francisco international airport roughly at 11:20 local time. as you can see it's 1:00 pacific time. we don't know the number of people who were on board. we don't know whether everyone got out safely. one of our guests a moment ago that has connections and former faa official, says he understood that everybody got out safely.