recap our breaking news for you right now. top of the hour. asiana airlines flight 214, you are looking at what is left of that aircraft. that is a boeing 777 left from shanghai. stopped in seoul, south korea, left seoul, south korea sometime around we are told 4:30 today. 4:30 local time in seoul. was set to land in san francisco around 11:15 or so. something happened. something happened very quickly, best we can gather according to eyewitness accounts and according to reports on the ground and reports from officials. 11:27 that plan crash landed. it did not land on runway 28. it landed best we can gather to the left of it. the tail at some point became detached from the plane. there have been eyewitness accounts that the tail itself dragged and clipped the

seawall. sources are nelling nbc news that -- telling nbc news that the pilot of the plane did not make any sort of distress call shortly before approaching the runway. at this point according to officials from a news conference, about 30-45 minutes ago there were some 307 people aboard. 291 of them passengers. 16 crew members. two of them died. 130 have been taken to area hospitals. and some 60 people upwards of approximately 60 people still unaccounted for. melissa reedberger has been following the story closely and i understand you have information about where presizely some of the injured folks were taken, which hospitals and the number of people in critical condition as well. what can you tell us? >> reporter: as you said earlier, 130 people transported to the hospital overall. we are getting a lot of information from san francisco general which happens to be the

only area trauma center. they are sending out hourly updates. they are receiving patients in what they are describing as waves and the first one came at about 12:30 local time today. ten patients, and they are all critical. mostly korean speakers so the hospital has brought in interpreters to work with the patients and familie familiar e arrived as well. the second wave. 17 patients. range from critical to good. they are being assessed and we are told these patients are mostly english speakers. the third wave is expected but has not yet arrived. they are anticipating more people to come, less injured people, if you will. this order to increase capacity san francisco general has set up tents outside of its e.r. and called in extra people to the hospital to accommodate anybody who arrives with any

kind of injury. we are told, craig, that people who are not as injured have been transported to other area hospitals because they don't necessarily need trauma care. one of those hospitals is laguna honda hospital. 11 people transferred there from san francisco general in order to free up beds for patients who have come in with more severe injuries. we are told that the hospital is prepared to accept more patients as they arrive but again they are saying that anybody who basically come comn at this point has a less severe injury. but there are a number of people who are critical. craig? >> so waves of patients showing up at the hospital now? >> reporter: some were transport the earlier. 130 people were transported to area hospitals total. as you mentioned earlier, 60 unaccounted for. there were 291 passengers onboard along with 16 crew. we really don't have a breakdown yet of exactly where they are especially considering the fact they are being

transported to different hospitals from hospitals at this point. 130 people were transported. but some people apparently just didn't need to be taken directly to the hospital and have made their own way there for treatment. >> all right. thank you so much for that update. captain, let me bring you back in here. again, as we continue to wait on another news conference in san francisco. as you look at the plane and fuselage burned out. right now we can see that much. what we can't see from this vantage point at least -- this is new you video i understand we are getting in. new video from kntv our affiliate there in the bay area. appears to be -- this is video from the terminal. from the airport terminal. some new video that we are just getting in. are we going to take a listen here to kntv as well?

okay. we just had that video there from kntv. captain, let me bring you back in here as we look at what is left of that plane. obviously saw the tail at the end of the runway. we have been looking at that tail for the past few hours. we really can't make a whole lot at least from this vantage point the wings, the condition of the wings of the plane. >> they are remarkably good. >> yeah. >> assuming before the fire the plane would look almost normal if it wasn't for the last ten feet of it. looks this remarkably good shape. leading edge flaps are down. trailing edge flaps are down. there have been accidents caused because the flaps weren't down. that is not the problem here. but the tail being decapitated if you can say that about a tail, there it is right at the very end of the override. >> yeah. >> the plane landed very short. short even of the safety area

and the tail of the plane was apparently taken off by hitting the seawall. and you can see that the tail actually stopped very shortly after the plane had it removed on the seawall. >> let me ask you about something else and i want to be careful here. we know from reports that the crew originated in shanghai. stopover in seoul before they eventually made their way from san francisco. presumably the pilots presumably they are not the from here are. talk to me a little bit about, maybe i'm wrong is there a gap or a cass many betwee casm betg of pilots in another country versus the training of pilots this this country? >> it is similar now. the crew may not have started in shanghai. they may have started in seoul. that is a long flight for a

crew. the training is remarkably -- >> universal? >> universal and excellent. what we have now is we have simulators that look exactly like an airplane sitting on moveable hydraulic rac actuatos and when you fly the simulator it is exactly like flying the airplane. what can happen in training is that the training instructor who is running the simulator can put the pilot in the the most extreme situations and train them to get out of it. so the training is phenomenal. >> we want to play a clip of a news conference from earlier. this is the news conference from the airport in san francisco. again, right now we are waiting on another news conference in san francisco at the airport there to give us updated numbers. but we do want to play for you

just a good chunk of the news conference that happened there a short time ago. let's take a listen. >> imjohn martin, airport director. tragic day for sfo, for san francisco, for everyone. i will provide as much information as we are able to at this time. the city leaders are here together. the mayor. fire chief. police chief. i would like to turn it over to the mayor ho now to say a few words. >> thank you, john. good afternoon. first let me say that on behalf of the people of san francisco our thoughts and our prayers are are with all of the passengers on the asiana airlines flight 214 from south korea. we are deeply saddened by this us incident and our hearts are with our friends and families of those that are affected. ladies and gentlemen, this is

still a fluid and active scene, not everyone has yet to be accounted for. our first responders responded immediately to this incident and bay area hospitals, some nine of them including san francisco general are treating those with injuries and we will continue to monitor their conditions. i have just spoken with debra hirsman who is the chair of the international transportation safety board and she will be flying out here and they will be investigating this incident. we are also in touch with our fbi agents as well. i have spoken and he is here today the counsel general from korea. we van persi have related our o the people offing is south korea. the passengers and their families are our first priority and we will continue to provide

them with support that they need. right now i have with me fire chief john hayes white, the police chief and you heard from the director of airport john martin and special agent jayday individual johnson from the fbi. let me turn it over to the public information officer for our airport for more details. >> thank you. to control the flight information again at approximately 11:27 a.m. asiana airlines flight 214 experienced an incident coming into san francisco airport. this aircraft is a boeing 777 aircraft. for a count of the passengers and the status of the passengers i'm going to turn it over to san francisco fire chief jo ann hayes white. chief? >> good afternoon, everyone. i wanted to let you know and emphasize again what the mayor

stated obviously and john martin as well. the tragedy at san francisco international airport but i want to assure you that the scene is now secured. it required the cooperation of multiagencies. at approximately 11:34 a.m. this morning the san francisco fire department who operates the fire fighting down here, we have three stations. we were called to the scene as well as units from san francisco for what we would have been categorized as a hard landing. our crews responded post the landing and our aircraft rescue fire fighting equipment went to work right away. when we arrived on scene the chutes had already been deployed and we observed multiup numbers of people coming down the chutes and actually walking to their safety which is a good thing. still active in terms of coordinating the numbers and so

forth. i'm told the information we received from asiana airlines, 291 passengers with 16 additional crew for a total of 307. we had 48 initial transports from the scene to area hospitals and that was both san francisco county and san mateo county. it was pretty even split. i believe 26 to san francisco and 22 to san mateo hospitals for are a total of 48. we accounted for 190 people transported here to a safety zone here is at san francisco international. the numbers are fluid. out of the 190 there are approximately 82 at this time that have become transported or are in the process of being transport the. we do have some passengers unaccounted for and that is something that is a work in progress. our crews worked collectively and collaboratively with not on sfpd but our brothers and sisters in the south bay made

valiant efforts. were actually on the plane doing search and rescue attempts. at 2:45 p.m. this afternoon we turned our investigation and efforts over to the federal bureau of investigation and we will be working and coordinate with the ntsb. my understanding is the scene is secured. at this time we are again working the numbers to determine exactly who is going where are in transports. but there were a number, like i said, 190 of the passengers pretty much were self-evacuated or with assistance from emergency responders over here to san francisco and they were categorized as green which means minor injuries. and i'm told that 28 of 919 -- 82 of the 190 were transported to the hospital. the other which the map is about 108 would be declared not necessary to go to the hospital. that is all that we have at this time. thank you. >> all right.

there you have it. again that was from earlier. that was the fire chief in san francisco. a lot of numbers to sift through here. but again the highlights. some 307 people aboard that asiana airlines flight. 16 crew you members. 130 people taken to area hospitals at this point. at this point they are still upwards of approximately 60 people who were on the plane that are still unaccounted for. we hope again hope being the operative word that 15 or 20 minutes from now, when there is another news conference from san francisco we will get an update on the last number ehe specially the 60 missing number. i want to bring in melissa reedburg again. i understand we are hearing from asiana airlines is that right? >> we h heard from the public relations office in seoul, south korea. they are investigating the cause of the accident.

they have not yet received any official information from the aviation authorities or government authorities. they will closely cooperate with the investigation by authorities. >> at this time asiana only saying they are investigating the cause of the accident. they are planning to coordinate with authorities. ntsb is already on the way to start investigating the accident as well as the coast guard. they are involved as well. we also heard from the manufacturers of this triple 7 is it is being called boeing. >> the first information we have gotten so far from the airline that owns the plane that you are looking at there is asiana airlines again this is flight 214, it left, again it, left shanghai today --

because of the time zone difference it is a little different. 43:45 local time. left shanghai to stop over in seoul. left seoul at 4:35. scheduled to land terminal one, san francisco international airport it was scheduled to land at 11:15 and ended up approaching the runway sometime around 11:27. we going to again re-set here. there the survivors of this plane crash are starting to talk. we are going to hear from one of those survivors on the other side of this break. this is msnbc. seconds and freshens breath. tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ fast heartburn relief and minty fresh breath. tums freshers. - hugs from ♪ tu .beneful baked delights... - [ barks ]rs ] are crispy, oven-baked dog snacks with soft savory centers, made with beef and cheese. beneful baked delights: a unique collection of four snacks... to help spark play in your day.

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welcome back as we continue to follow the breaking news at san francisco international airport. the crash of asiana flight 214. you are looking at the beginnings of an investigation right now. that plane crashed as the pilot was trying to land i sometime around 11:27 local time. we heard in a news conference

we heard from a news conference about an hour, roughly an hour ago at this point two people are confirmed dead. upwards of 60 people are missing. 307 people aboard the plane. right-side of the screen, of the pictures we have seen today this one is perhaps the most the dramatic. in the control room, i don't know if we can take this picture up full for a moment so we can point out the fire in the cabin. if you look at the bottom of the screen to the right you can see flames in the cabin. thick plumes of smoke billowing from the aircraft. a number of the inflatable slides were deployed almost immediately. we have seen pictures of supreme who used the slides to get off the plane. they walked. they ran to safety. hopefully, hopefully in the hysteria the frantic runing

that undoubtedly ensued hopefully that explains the number of missing at this point. that is our hope. that is our are prayer. we are mrs. starting to hear from some -- we are also starting to hear from some of the people who were onboard that plane. ben levy talke talked talked tr affiliate kntv a short time ago. take a listen to what he told them. >> first, it was a bit surreal. a lot of people screaming, not really believing what was happening to them, i think. and i wasn't believing either. and then the door was closed. i kind of stood up and went and opened the door which we didn't have a side, the side was gone. a piece of the wing was gone. there was a lot of debris on the ground and started ushering people out and trying to calm down as well because people were pushing each other out.

comotion a lot of ko motion going on. >> benjamin we are thankful you got out safe. updates on injuries here. two people have passed away unfortunately. tele iopcritical condition at sf general and dozens of others at bay area hospitals. i know this is probably very difficult for you. if i could ask once again, the emotion on the plane there was any smoke inside of the plane? >> i'm sorry, could you repeat the question? >> there was any smoke inside of the plane, inside of the fuselage there? >> yeah, so when we got out there was some smoke that was starting to appear that is why i tried to force people to go out as soon as they he could. there was no fire yet.

the fire came afterward. the firemen were fast on the site and so by the time i was back in the plane towards the back of the plane some firemen, a woman actually came to the backdoor of the plane, i think. so the fire crew was on site pretty quickly and then tried to bring people to safety. >> benjamin levy who was on the plane from seoul to sfo when it crashed at 11:27 in the morning was on the plane and kind enough to join us now. i don't know if you are near a television. you but if you are able to turn us on, on msnbc and see the photos of the plane crash that you survived. can i ask were the flight crew and passengers helpful in terms of just evacuating the plane? >> i think all together, you know, a lot of people were speaking korean.

i think everybody was pretty much helping and not pushing each other over and we tried to move as fast as we could. so a lot of commotion again. >> jen bbenjamin levy is with . did you see any one injured with your own eyes or stuck or left behind? what sort of injuries did you see. in. >> a lot of head injuries. the person next to me got hit bad in the head. people injured necks and head and bruises. >> i knee this is probably pretty upsetting for you. we are also joined by my colleague here steven stock. i know you have questions more technically related for benjamin levy on the flight from seoul. >> thank you so much, here.

you are giving great insight into this. i had a question about when did you know something was going wrong? any indication other than looking out the window and seek the water fairley close when did you realize something was going amiss when you heard something hit? take us through that. >> the landing area and a pier that is probably going out. i'm from europe so i'm going say 50-meters. a few piers at the edge before you start hitting the runway and i could see from the window next to my seat we were low and soon, not soon but it was a gradual descent. just feels like the guy missed the runway. push the gad and throttle at full speed and tried to correct and go up again which probably helped us a lot otherwise we would have hit the rocks first instead of maybe water then rocks. i couldn't tell, of course, i was in the plane.

i can tell you everybody was getting ready to get out of the plane and we were arrived and weather was there and there was novicibility issues whatsoever. the plane was doing fine. >> ben levy there with a first account from someone who was aboard flight 214. i want to bring the captain back in if we can, captain. you were listening in with me. 40 years a pilot. 747. 767s. it sounded like he was describing presizely what you think probably happened with this plane based on your decades of flying experience. >> yes, he said that the plane was coming in and he could tell it was low and then he said that the pilots tried to correct by pushing up the power and at some point the crew realized they were going to hit and tried to stop it but too late. >> we are minutes away from

another news conference in san francisco. expected beg the operative word. 8:30 local time. 8:30 eastern time. 5:30 local time. we are waiting on that news conference. at that news conference we expect to get an update on some of the numbers we have been reporting here for the past hour and a half. two people are dead. dozens more injured. 130 people taken to area hospitals. but at this point the number 60, 60 is the magic number. that is the number of people who are missing right now. we are hoping that officials come back and n. just a few minutes -- in just a few minutes and tell us that all if not most of those folks have been accounted for. captain, i will come back to you in a second. melissa standing by with new information as well. melissa? >> hearing a little more communications from the asiana airlines press p.r. agency. they released this prime breaking down who was onboard.

29 passengers and 16 crew members onboard the plane. 77 koreans. 141 chinese. 61 u.s. and one japanese citizen. 19 passengers in business class. 272 in economy. asiana airlines are currently investigating the cause of the accident and will cooperate with government officials going with what they said earlier they do plan to work actively with the ntsb as it investigates the accident. >> give us the breakdown again. 141 chinese passengers. >> the citizens from different countries on the plane. 291 passengers. 7 p koreans. -- 77 koreans. 141 chinese citizens. 61 u.s. and one japanese citizen. 19 passengers in business class. 272 were traveling in economy. >> the majority of folks aboard the plane chinese citizens not surprising since the plane originated in shanghai before

the stopover in seoul where it took off around 4:30 local time. melissa, thank you so much for that. captain, i want to bring you back in because we have been looking at the tail of the plane for p of the afternoon and i think we have got a close shot of that tail that we will try and about pull up. there it is right this. >> yeah. >> the tail of the plane that we identified at the end of the runway closer to the seawall than it is the absolutely aircraft that the point. that tail looks to be for the most part fairley intact, no? >> the tail itself but it definitely come loose. when we talk about the tail, let's say the cone the fuselage part of the tail hit the seawall it came apart and left these three fins two horizontal fins and the vertical fin to be left there at very near the impact point. >> how long could have plane have traveled successfully

without that? >> when you lose that -- those three parts you don't have an airplane any more. you have a projectile. >> from that vantage point you get a better sense of the size of the tail that was attached to the boeing 777. we are waiting for a news conference to begin in san francisco. we are expecting that news conference. there it is. we have the live picture for you there. a news conference. we had one about an hour ago where we got some initial information regarding some of the numbers. at that point we expect to consider at this point we expect to learn a little bit more. the first news conference we found out from the san francisco mayor edwin lee this is still a fluid and active scene. presumably that is because there are still five dozen people unaccounted for. we also found out that at

11:27 was the time where this aircraft appears to have crash landed. 11:27. at 11:34 the san francisco fire department responded to that hard landing. when firefighters arrived chutes had already been deployed and folks who were on that plane some of them were walking to safety. some of them were running to safety as well. right now two runways are open at the san francisco international airport. in fact, about 30-45 minutes ago we saw the first aircraft, one of the first aircraft land there. that was british airways flight. on the left side of the a is we wait for the news conference on the left side of the screen you are seeing what was described by the survivors, based on folks that responded to the plane crash there was a period

after those -- of the after the chutes we ployed when the period appears to have been three or tour minutes before the fire started. so there was this crash landing. people managed to get off the asiana airlines plane and shortly thereafter fire begins to engulf the cabin. at this point we do not know where the fire originated but we have seen aerial footage throughout the course of the afternoon and you can see that the fuselage is practically burned out. again at this point 2 fatalities. upwards of approximately 60 people still unaccounted for. the airport itself not completely open again just yet. the airport itself not completely open. we have been talking to a number of folks throughout the course of the day, aviation

experts, analysts, our own tom costello spent the better half of the afternoon and evening with us. a captain of 40 years, an aviation expert. captain, again, let's re-set here for folks who might be joining us for the first time this evening. when you look at damage like this, when you look at damage like that, how surprised are you that the numbers of the dead and numbers of the injured are where they are? >> when i first saw the pictures, i was really wondering if it was going to be amazing if anyone survived. it is phenomenal. apparently the flight attendants did an outstanding job of getting people off the airplane. unfortunately according to mr. levy they didn't have fire initially they had smoke initially so some were able to get off. i thought i would point out that the area where the wire

begins to have begun there are four lines that run between the two wings that go under the cabin that the point. >> horizontally, vertically? >> horizontally. for example if you use too much fuel from one side of the plane you want to balance it, you can balance fuel by sending it to those lines. there are lines in there. if those were damaged apparently they were in the crash. that i believe probably was the source of the fire but it didn't start so quickly that some people couldn't get off the -- the fact that the plane was landing with woo know that there obviously was not as much fuel as there would have been some 12-14 hours earlier. >> right. still a considerable amount of fuel because when you reach your destination airport you have to have another fuel to go to another airport, make a landing there plus have 30 minutes to an hour of extra fuel just for holding.

still a consider rebel amount of fuel. >> on the left side of the screen, again, it is about 5:30 there san francisco. looking at video earlier from the first responders. emergency personnel. fire troubles. lots of fire trucks. in fact, we are told at one point there was roughly 180 firefighters in the area. this is another new picture. control where do we know this one from, do we know? >> we don't know precisely where this is from. this is the first time that we he have gotten this vantage point the top of that there and captain as you look at -- as you look at this picture. wow. >> if you look at the two wings fuel is normally carried in the wing. there is a line that goes under

the passenger cabin to the normal part of the fuselage that goes across there. it is down there and if the plane got that damage that is the reason why you have the fire at that particular part. >> melissa reedberger standing by with new information on patients i understand? >> as a matter of fact. as you were sitting here talking about the flames we got a report that 7 patients have been brought to saint joseph's hospital. one of san francisco's premier burn treatment facilities. seven people brought there. we know that all of the passengers had to scoot down the chutes that the employees. they did is in a short amount of time but as expected there are some burn injuries. we do not know thible tent of it but -- the extent of it but seven take taken to this hospi.

>> we await for this news conference in san francisco to start. this is the first time i have seen this picture as well, captain. kind of tough to make out what is happening there but looks like the coast guard, could be a coast guard boat there. we have seen a number of uniformed people methodically scouring the runway and field next to the runway as well as we look at a spool of debris that the plane left behind. we have been paying information particular attention to the tail. captain, could you make out any of the debris there? >> i was trying to figure out what will some of those things were. if you go back to what we saw you a moment ago. the area of debris right where it hit the seawall is rather wide would then mean they

didn't just graze it. it was a wide enough part of the fuselage to impact the seawall and leave that actually pinstripe maybe it looks like six feet wide. >> going forward from that point to very shortly you see the who are dontal fins and the vertical fins with the airline's color. slid down another thousand feet to hundred feet. >> captain, i will get you to stand by if you could for a few minutes. folks, we are waiting on a news conference set to begin any moment now in san francisco. we are waiting on an update with regards to flight 214 that crashed this afternoon in san francisco. two people dead. 130 take tonight hospital. 60 still missing. this is msnbc. we will be right back. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that.

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we expected it to start about ten minutes guy an minute ago n told the news conference is going to start at 8:00. officials there trying to start to figure out what happened to asiana flight 214 that crashed at san francisco international airport around 11:27 local time inth morning. again -- local time this morning. again, the ntsb deployed a full team. we heard from the chairman just a too hours ago. they deployed a full team there. we have also seen investigators already on the ground start to sift through the remains of the plane, combing the grounds for -- oh, apparently we got some misinformation. the news conference in san francisco is about to start right now. let's listen in. >> information officer for the san francisco airport. i'm joined by assistant deputy chief dale kearns from the san francisco fire department and special agent in charge of the fbi dave johnson. want to thank you all for

coming. certainly been a challenging and difficult day at sfo today. i want to start by reconfirming some of the facts and then we will proprovide updated information on passenger numbers for you. again, this morning at 11:27 a.m. wie had an incident moving asiana flight 214. a flight that originated in shanghai and continued on through seoul airport on its way to san francisco. a boeing 777 aircraft. and manifest count the number of individuals onboard the aircraft, 291 passengers and 16 crew for a total of 307 onboard the aircraft. as i mentioned we he do have updated information on the status of those passengers and crew. and for that i will turn it over to assistant deputy chief dale kearns. dale? >> good evening. of the 307 souls onboard we had

181 total that were transported to local hospitals. of that 181, 49 were serious and were in the initial victims transport from the scene. an additional 132 were transported later on into the incident after bein being trias they were the more minor to moderate casualties. we accounted for 123 people here in the terminallals in the airport uninjured and remained in place. at this time we do have two confirmed d.o.a. passengers on the aircraft. >> so those numbers add up to 306. we are working to confirm the last one. as dale mentioned we have 123 individuals uninjured still on site at the airport being processed as we speak. i will turn it over to fbi special agent in charge dave johnson. dave? >> thank you. at this time we continue to work with the ntsb on

determining the exact cause of the incident. continues to be no indication that no terrorism act contributed to the incident. we are offer oing all resources necessary to help with the event. we continue to keep the flight's passengers, crews, a their loved ones in our thoughts. >> i want to finish by talking about the status of the airport as a whole. as i mentioned in the last briefing a total of four runways at sfo. we reopened two of the four runways. we are operating limited a arrivals and departures at sfo currently. we would recommend for any passengers traveling through sfo to check with the airline for status of the flight before coming out to the airport today. thank you very much for coming. the next briefing will be held at 7:30 tonight in this same location. thank you. >> there is the quick news conference. latest on the plane crash there in san francisco.

and we have been doing some math here. 307 people aboard the plane. 291 passengers, 16 of them crew members. 49 were in serious condition. part of the initial transport. an additional 132 were taken later into the incident. they were described as minor to moderate. 123 people found in the terminals okay. these were 123 people in the terminal who were just fine. and, of course, the two people who had -- the confirmed death there as well. those numbers add up to 306 people. we heard from the official at this point there is still just the one person that is still unaccounted for. so some much needed good news there in san francisco. just a few moments agorgeous the number of missing was --

ago the number of missing was at 16 as is frequently the case in situations like this where there is a tragedy people begin to run frantically understandably so. looks as if a number of people ran into the terminal. again, just one person unaccounted for in san francisco. two dead. scores of others hurt as the investigation begins. i want to bring in noelle walker, a reporter across the bay, i understand, noelle. is that where you are? >> we are. we are just across. i can give you a vantage point of where the plane sits across a little estuariry here at sfo. the tail section is quite a distance to the right. we were told by witnesses, multiple witnesses that the plane came in very low and looked like the tail maybe had

clipped part of the sea wall when it completely broke off which tells you it must be coming in with some amount of force when it hit for it to completely sheer off the rest of the plane and the remainder of the plane continued to slide forward on the runway. looks like it went into the dirt off the runway. >> your vantage point is especially unique. if we could have the camera zoom in on the plane for us. describe what it is that you see happening around the fuselage? >> reporter: we are a goody's transaway. ky still see the emergency crews out there, the bright yellow. investigators if they are not out there about l. be out there later for nstb. the coroner for san mateo county swept the fuselage and

has found no other unaccounted for people. you you mentioned earlier hearing about 60 people missing or unaccounted for and now we know that is one person unaccounted for at the moment. again, confirmed just two dead in this plane crash. i shouldn't say just two. two is too many in a plane crash but two dead in the plane crash. multiple injuries. many serious. >> we knew what you meant there, though. thank you so much. noelle walker from across the bay. we may come back in just a bit. almost 6:00 there on the west coast. as the investigation starts into presizely wha precisely wt caused asiana flight 214 to go down around 11:27 this morning local time in san francisco. pamela malone is one of the folks who saw that thing happen i understand. what did you see and what did you hear? >> well, i was standing in the marriott hotel.

i did not actually see the plane go down but i heard something. so when i heard something it sounded like fireworks so at first i didn't think anything of it. and it sounded like the loud big fireworks that you hear over the river during the fourth of july right before you see the finished product. it was two booms that i heard. then i went to the window and looked out the window and saw the plane on the ground. and at this point i think i just saw what may have been a cloud of dust or smoke from the plane making contact with the ground and then after that i saw the emergency chute come out of the side of the plane and i want to say i saw at least 50 to 60 passengers walking away from the plain. everything seemed to be organized. people weren't just running around and frantic. everybody seemed to be in a single file line and walking

away from the plane. >> walking orderly from the plane? >> right. >> you mentioned you saw the -- you heard two booms and then saw a plume of dust or smoke. did you see any flames at any point, pamela? >> i don't really think i saw flames but i did see a large amount of black smoke coming from the plane i guess when the fire started and it took them a little while to put it out. initially i did see the black smoke. it came after i saw passengers getting out of the plane. >> did the plane appear to be intact when you saw it? >> yes. for the most part. everything except the tail. the tail was some where else. >> and that is what we have been looking at over the course of the afternoon and evening. the tail that is quite a distance away from the boeing 777. as you heard and then saw all of this go down, pamela, what is going through your mind? >> i couldn't really believe

what i was seeing. i'm actually from alabama here for the fourth of july as well as a nurse and on an assign hment here. i was just here for an overnight stay. i had been watching planes go in and come out all night and all day and didn't think anything of actually seeing a plane like crash on the runway. it is kind of hard to put into words something that i have seen on tv but not actually witnessed. >> when you saw the folks that you mentioned who were walking away from the plane in an orderly fashion, where did they go? >> could you tell whether they were going into the terminal? could you tell whether they were just trying to get away from the plane and just waiting on the runway or waiting in the nearby field that we see there? >> well, from out of my hotel

window which is like direct line of sight the passengers were going off to the right of the plane. more toward the end of the runway. not necessarily back to the left which is toward the terminal because they were still quite a ways from where the terminal was. >> how long did you look out of your hotel window? by that i mean we know at some point there was a fire. it sounds like you looked away before the fire started and the ems and fire trucks showed up, is that right? >> it seems to be so, yes. i was probably in my hotel room from maybe 10 or 15 minutes and then i checked out of the hotel and came along the walkway and started viewing from there. >> what -- are you still there along the walkway? >> yes. i just got back. >> got back to the hotel room. >> yeah. >> what do you see outside your hotel room window right now? >> well, i still see, of course, the fuselage that is

there and then earlier there was a united jumbo jet at the end of the runway that is no longer there any more and then the ems and fire trucks and stuff. >> there were reports earlier from other eyewitnesses there was another plane that was close to this plane as it was landing. did you see that other plane? >> the only other plane i saw had been sitting on the runway for awhile. i think it was a united jumbo yet. it was toward the end of the runway near like the open bay and it was there until it was brought back to the terminal. as far as like is it involved in the accident with another plane, i didn't see that. >> pamela malone there on the phone. heard two booms and then saw the afterthe math of the plane crash. pamela thank you so much. safe travels back to alabama,

okay. >> thank you. >> so again, folks, we have been hearing from a number of eyewitnesses over the course of the afternoon and a number of them are pretty much saying the same thing. starting to at least from a visual standpoint put the pieces this of iowale together. we heard from -- puzzle together. we heard from several people who say that one person told us that they saw the actual tail clip the runway at some point. just heard from pamela there. when seesaw the plane it was already missing its tail and we have been taking a look at that tail oh kerr verducci the course of the after-- over the course of the afternoon and evening. no doubt the ntsb team that is deployed this will be one of the first things they are look at as well. melissa is standing by and covering the aspect of the story that pertains to folks in the hospital, the airport itself. i underand it you have new

information for people who might know someone on this flight. >> yeah. as a matter of fact, we do. we just got a couple of new numbers in for people who want to make inquiries about this crash landing today. the number is if we could put it up on the screen, too, that would be wonderful. 1-800-227-4262. that is 1-800-800-227-4262. the number to call in korea. 080-669-8000 again. we also have new information from the south korean ministry of land, infrastructure and transport. they he just held a press briefing. the spokesperson said and i'm reading this to you.

the authorities are trying to find out the cause of accident and south koreaian authorities are working closely to investigate with the relevant authorities and with the u.s. ntsb. a south korean investigation team of four different expertise being sent to the u.s. to work together to find out the accident cause and they are cooperating with the u.s. government and ministry of foreign awares. the ministry is not aware or does not have information on the casualties as they are still trying to find out the information. there is the number to call if you have any kind of inquiries. if you know somebody on the flight this is the number that you call. 1-800-227-4262 as you see on the screen. there is another one also if you are trying to call somebody from korea and i will read that out to you as soon as i can find that. >> you know what, let's take a quick break and we will let you find that number and get that for 2308ings on the other side.

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