the states reportedly crash landing on the runway people are said to be trapped inside the asiana airline boeing triple seven as be no information on casualties or the cause of the accident so far off eight his fighters are at the scene and passengers have been witness to scaping down the emergency slides well that will bring you more on this developing story as soon as we got it. well look coming your way very shortly here on welcoming the world to will be heading to the russian city where a spectacular opening ceremony is in full swing marking the start of ten days of summer university games stay with us for the us if you can't. wealthy british style sign some time to. market. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm making a push to the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say. ok a car is on the docket no. thank you n

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

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the asiana airlines boeing 777 crashed and burst into flames as it landed on saturday. about 300 people were on board. the u.s. ntsb has been examining the data from flight recorders recovered from the burned-out jet. >> the target speed for the approach was 137 knots. the approach proceeds normally as they descend. there is no discussion of any aircraft anomalies or concerns with the approach. >> hersman says that the voice recorder says that the speed on approach was far slower than the target speed. the pilots called for an increase in speed seven seconds before the crash. they will interview the pilots, crew and passengers in the coming day and examine the flight recorders. one of the survivors says what she saw inside the aircraft was horrible. she said she managed to escape through a hole that opened up in the rear of the plane. >> plane tail touch the ground directly. >> did people scream? >> everybody screamed. >> asiana airlines officials say 307 people were on board when the jet crashed on to the runway. the passengers included 141 chinese, 77 south koreans an

and some of today's world news stories now and asiana airlines boeing seven seven seven flying from south korea has crashed while landing at san francisco airport two female chinese teenagers are confirmed dead and scores are injured but incredibly more than three hundred people escaped when they were jet slammed into the wrong way and burst into flames airline's ruled out mechanical failure witnesses say the plane appeared to come in too low as it struck a sea wall near the runway shearing off the tail. of. a train carrying crude oil has derailed in callback in canada exploding into a fireball and leaving at least one person dead dozens of nearby buildings were leveled and around a thousand people were forced to flee their homes some are still missing reports also say a large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a river close to the scene. britain has finally managed to deport radical islamist cleric abu qatada is now in his native country of jordan to face terrorism charges but costly legal battle to remove catawba from the u.k. took over ten years and he is known as a key figure and

the new details about the chief pilot, the captain of the asiana airlines boeing 777.s name, but exactly how much experience that he had flying that particular aircraft, and it's not much. we're told the pilot in control of that pl h

the new details about the chief pilot, the captain of the asiana airlines boeing 777.ed not only his name, but exactly how much experience that he had flying that particular aircraft, and it's not much. we're told the pilot in control of that plane, had clocked just 43 hours flying the 777-200. he is a veteran pilot of other air frames, but the airline says it was his maiden ft

francisco international airport a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago. it is a passenger plane, a boeing 777 from asiana airlines, which is a large south korean airline. we have live pictures as well as pictures from passengers who were fleeing that plane. the one you just saw was a

the new details about the chief pilot, the captain of the asiana airlines boeing 777. a south korean aviation official released not only his name, but exactly how much experience that he had flying that particular aircraft, and it's not much. we're told the pilot in control of that plane, had clocked just 43 hours flying the 777-200. he is a veteran pilot of other air frames, but the airline says it was his maiden flight to san francisco and n that particular type of jet. no word yet on whether that is a factor in the crash. one thing for sure, the ntsb says the plane's speed at the time of that crash was definitely wrong. >> during the approach, the data indicates that the throttles were at idle and airspeed was slowed below the target airspeed. >> this is the exclusive video hee we have here at cnn that shows the impact of the airliner on the runway at san francisco yesterday. two passengers, both teenaged girls from china were killed and more than 180 needed medical help. make sure you go to cnn.com all night long for the very latest on the crash of flight 214, and

following breaking news at san francisco's international airport, a large commercial airliner, a boeing 777, from asiana airlines crash landed just a short time ago. a number of passengers on board. we're not exactly sure how many passengers were on board. we're not sure of any injuries. we do know that many passengers ran off this planes, some of them taking pictures as the ones you are seeing now, as they were fleeing the plane and trying to get to safety here. again, we're being told by the faa that this was a crash landing. what they call a textbook crash landing. the tail broke off the plane. the fuselage at the top, you can see partially burned, most of it is gone, and as you look at this picture right now, you can see there is no tail section, there is no rudder on this plane. we did see the emergency slides deploy as well. and we're getting all sorts of new information here as well. i'm being told just at the top of the hour in just a few minutes there's going to be a press conference in san francisco. there's going to be another press conference at the bottom of the hour at 5:30 eastern time fr

francisco international airport is now in partial operation following today's deadly crash of the asiana airlines boeingner. at this hour two landing strips have been reopened. earlier the airport was shut down, forcing airlines to divert flights to other cities. we've got tony valdez from lax. tony? >> reporter: heather, one would not notice much of a difference at lax today. most of the traffic between los angeles and san francisco arrives and departs in the early morning hours, so most everyone going up there was able to get there before sfo was shut down. southwest airlines, the largest of the carriers on this very busy route, especially on the weekends, had to shut down or had to cancer two o can cancel s flights. there's a couple more scheduled this evening. southwest tells me they're expecting to either take off and land at sfo because of those open runways. if that doesn't work, they'll be sending passengers to san jose and oakland airport which are less than an hour's drive from san francisco. they'll take them there and bus them to san francisco. as far as international flights are concerned,

to sue the plane's manufacturer claiming the crash of the boeing 777 might have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. neither asiana airlines or boeing would comment. nasa scientists believe a leak in an astronaut's cooling bag nearly caused him to drowned in space today. the italian was taking part in a spacewalk when water just started pouring into his helmet. 1.5 liters seeped in. they aborted it qekly. they helped get him in the spacestation where other crew members helped take off his helmet before he choked to death. nasa says it was one of the most hair harrowing spacewalks in decades. new at 11:00, a mystery tonight in the california desert where a man woke up in an emergency room with no idea who he is. according to his id this is michael boatrwright and found in palm springs. he remembers knock of his past and speaks only in swedish. this video is from the desert sun newspaper that reports that it had located his sister in louisiana. he is in the hospital until the staff can figure out how to safely discharge him. find out about that rare condition on "nightline" at 12:35. what a strange story. the watch abc live

to sue the plane's manufacturer claiming the crash of the boeing 777 might have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. neither asiana airlines or boeing would comment. nasa scientists believe a leak in an astronaut's cooling bag nearly caused him to drowned in space today. the italian was taking part in a spacewalk when water just started pouring into his helmet. 1.5 liters seeped in. they aborted it qekly. they helped get him in the spacestation where other crew members helped take off his helmet before he choked to death. nasa says it was one of the most hair harrowing spacewalks in decades. new at 11:00, a mystery tonight in the california desert where a man woke up in an emergency room with no idea who he is. according to his id this is michael boatrwright and found in palm springs. he remembers knock of his past and speaks only in swedish. this video is from the desert sun newspaper that reports that it had located his sister in louisiana. he is in the hospital until the staff can figure out how to safely discharge him. find out about that rare condition on "nightline" at 12:35. what a strange story. the watch abc live

to sue the plane's manufacturer claiming the crash of the boeing 777 might have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. neither asiana airlines or boeing would comment. nasa scientists believe a leak in an astronaut's cooling bag nearly caused him to drowned in space today. the italian was taking part in a spacewalk when water just started pouring into his helmet. 1.5 liters seeped in. they aborted it qekly. they helped get him in the spacestation where other crew members helped take off his helmet before he choked to death. nasa says it was of the most hair harrowing spacewalks in decades. new at 11:00, a mystery tonight in the california desert where a man woke up in an emergency room with no idea who he is. according to his id this is michael boatrwright and found in palm springs. he remembers knock of his past and speaks only in swedish. this video is from the desert sun newspaper that reports that it had located his sister in louisiana. he is in the hospital until the staff can figure out how to safely discharge him. find out about that rare condition on "nightline" at 12:35. what a strange story. the watch abc live stre

he may end up suing asiana, the airline, boeing, the company that made that jet, as well as the company that made the flight instruments and maybe even san francisco international airport. live in san francisco, terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. >>> back up. >> it was a chaotic scene at sfo today. a crush of media. many of them chinese and korean journalists, wanting to interview the president of asiana airlines. he did not speak to reporters. but promised to fully cooperate with this investigation. >>> the airport in south korea earlier today, he bowed and apologized to the families of the two teenagers killed in the crash. but the father of one of those teens couldn't contain his anger toward him. as he publicly lashed out at the ceo and told him that he was disappointed with the airline. now, to new details about the investigation and the moments leading up to the crash. three pilots in the cockpit. as we're learning tonight, confusion over who was doing what and when they realized that the flight was in trouble. >> nbc bay area's jean elle continues our coverage from burlingame. >

details emerging over the event that led to the crash of the asiana airlines boeing 777 in san francisco over the weekend. nbc's john yang has more. >> reporter: ke cly clues revea. recordings of cockpit conversations seem to show the crew thought everything was fine until about seven seconds before landing when one crew member calms for increased speed. then three seconds later they get a warning that the plane is about to stall, lose its ability to fly. a second and a half before impact, a call to abort the landing. but it's too late. >> the approach speed was 137 knots. and the question was whether or not we had the lowest speed that the crew achieved. i will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots. and we're not talking about a few knots. >> reporter: national transportation safety board investigators recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders. the so-called black boxes. from the wreckage and sent them to washington overnight. they've also inspected the wreckage inside and out. the boeing 777 was ending a 10 1/2 hour flight from seoul, south korea, on its

. >> now the asiana airlines plane that crashed was a boeing 777ful the twin aircraft is one of the most popular long distance planes. if you're in the aviation field, you know this. you know all about this plane. it is used for flights 12 hours or more. in the bay area, where we are a hub. this is a very common airplane for sfo from one continent to another typically. it is these long flights over water. the 777s can carry up to 300 passengers. and actually, on this we had 307. two 91 passengers, 16 is the crew. almost to capacity. 300 is the capacity. 291 in terms of the passengers here plus the crew. and also, change, of course, based on the number here. based on the configuration of the plane it can increase or decrease. >> we were hearing it could be up to 400. in this particular model of flight, they were thinking from steven stocks, from what he was able to find out, there were probably 36 rows in this flight. boeing issued a statement on its website saying boeing extends its concern. boeing is preparing to provide technical assistance to the national transportation safety board a

of high profile commercial jet accidents in the month of july, including the crash of an asiana airlines boeinghat killed three people in san francisco. one comforting aspect that we should note here, rick, for jittery passengers boarding planes today, overall air travel has had the strongest safety records in recent years so keep that in mind as you fly anywhere today. rick: julie, thanks. >> sure. patti ann: the trial of james whitey bulger continues in boston. coming up the latest from the courtroom today after yesterday's dramatic testimony. bulger's former sidekick claiming that bulger strangled a young woman in front of him and a short time ago, kate middleton's parents arrived at the hospital where their daughter gave birth to the future king of england. does that mean we could be close to seeing the new prince and his parents emerge? and a live report from kate's home town coming up. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ all aboar

are live pictures from runway to wait at san francisco's international airport where a and airliner an asiana boeing triple seven has burst into flames on landing it is a south korean airline and witnesses say the tail broke off before touchdown this happened in the last hour it was at first reported that no fatalities resulted from this impact from this plane crashing but now we're learning from firefighters at the scene that they have discovered two bodies so it seems that there are two deaths resulting so far from this boeing triple seven south korean airliner crashing at san francisco airport it does carry up to three hundred passengers including the crew and earlier reports were suggesting that everybody did indeed survive the impact you can see it just on the shores there of san francisco bay that debris strewn all over the runway and pictures there of the airline itself now we'll bring you the latest on this in the coming hours and of course you can check dot com our web site for eyewitness accounts on the twitter feeds and the latest pictures r.t. dot com well i'll be back with the latest in

south korean investigators and officials from asiana airlines and boeing are also expected at the airport. the ntsb chief says aside from terrorism as a cause, everything is on the table. rene marsh is joining us. what is the procedure now that the flight data voice recorders and the go team is on the ground? >> they have had the flight recorders i would say for roughly about four hours now. so right now they're downloading the data from the flight recorders. and those are actually located in the back of the plane, the back area around the tail. so we have some video of the flight recorders, the ones shipped over from san francisco right there in the lab. so once again, you can see a little bit of soot on them. but the process of trying to figure out exactly went what went on moments before the crash landing, they can provide a lot of information. we're talking about the data recording that holds information like altitude, speed, position, cockpit voice recorder is capable of picking up back ground and warning signals that may have gone off. >> how long does it take to sift through those

pkg sorprendentes giros da la investigacion del accidente aereo del boeing 777 perteneciente a la compaÑia asiana airlines.. que se estrello aterrizando en san francisco el pasado sabado y cuyo saldo deja hasta el momento dos pasajeros muertos, 8 en estado critico y 181 heridos... hoy en rueda de prensa, la vocera del departamento nacional de transporte y seguridad dio importante informacion que ayuda a esclarecer el accidente... entrevista segun refirio, el capitan de la nave tiene mucha experiencia en boeing 777, pero todo indica que quien piloteaba en el momento del aterrizaje era un miembro de entrenamiento que aunque tenia muchas horas de vuelo con otros tipos de aviones, era la primera vez

but the target isn't asiana airlines, but instead boeing.he manufacturer of the triple 7 that crashed. in this case, this involves questions about the auto throttle and also those evacuation chutes that inflated inside the plane. >> reporter: right, but this is not a lawsuit. it's something that's called a petition for discovery, which under illinois law allows people to force companies t release information so they can find out if they have grounds for a lawsuit in the first place. this is the petition filed in cook county court in illinois on behalf of 83 passengers of asiana air flight of 214. it is a request to force boeing and all other manufacturers involved to release information. robert clifford is a chicago based attorney specializing in aviation litigation. >> it is not a lawsuit. there is no claim. there's no charges being alleged, there's no money being sought. illinois allows people to go into court and say to the court, i might have a case here. permit me to get some information from

aviation officials say a boeing 777 jet crashed as it was landing. the plane belongs to asiana airlines. cnn says it flew from inchang international airport. no casualties have been confirmed. >>> islamic militants have attacked a boarding school in northeastern nigeria, killing at least 27 students and one teacher. no group has so far claimed responsibility but local police blamed the violence on bokoharam, based in northeastern nigeria. just before dawn on saturday, a group of gunmen broke into the boarding is it school in the state of yobe. it's the latest in a series of attack. they set fire also to school buildings. the group is also suspected of being response for a series of attacks against government offices and abductions of foreign nationals. you see the nigerian government declared a state of emergency in may for three northeastern states club yobe, and launched military operations against the militant group. >>> clashes in egypt between supporters and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi have left 30 people dead. a top muslim brother leader has been detained, under su

breaking news this hour an asiana boeing triple seven airliner crashes on landing at san francisco international airport reported be leaving at least two dead when this is claimed the tail broke off to touchdown before the plane burst into flames these are live pictures from the scene there at san francisco's international airport. another sign of invitation for n.s.a. leaker edward snowden as the bolivian president says he's ready to welcome the whistleblower if requested that soft of the venezuelan leader offers him humanitarian asylum. deadly divide in egypt opponents and backers of miles to president morsi push on with their rival rallies as the pro-american opposition leader mohamed el baradei takes the prime minister's job. international news and comment online on screen twenty four hours a day this is. and straight to our breaking news this hour live pictures the live scene there from san francisco's international airport where at least two people have been killed according to local news sources after an airliner crash landed at the airport while around forty eight people have now reporte

. >> reporter: federal investigators are focusing on the final seconds of asiana airline flight 214. the boeing 777 apparently came in too low and too low during landing saturday and crashed at san francisco international airport. >> there were three pilots in the cockpit at the time of the crash. >> reporter: the pilot sitting in the left seat was still in training and it was his first landing at san francisco in a 777. next to him sat his instructor, a senior pilot, who has logged more than 3,000 hours flying that type of plane. but it was his first flight as an instructor pilot. >> this was the first time that he and the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown together. >> reporter: the senior pilot told the ntsb that as the plane had approached the runway, he noticed it was flying at a lower speed than what was programmed in auto pilot. >> at 500 feet he knew they were l low. the tail struck and broke off. the survives say they had little warning. >> the last couple of seconds the engines revved into high gear and, boom, the back end lifted up, jolted everything in their seat. >> two

once again we within to show you the wreckage there from asiana airlines, the 777 boeing plane on the runway at sfo. ntsb investigators are here checking into this disaster. asiana flight 214 originated in shanghai before stopping in seoul and then making its way to san francisco. the airline says there were 16 crewmembers on board and 291 passengers. 61 americans were on that plane. there were 141 chinese passengers, along with 77 south koreans and one japanese citizen. the nationalities of the remaining passengers, they were flying under passports from canada, india, vietnam and france. >> listen to this story, one peninsula woman who saw the plane crash from her home, also saw another plane crash at sfo 49 years ago. barbara and her husband looked out the window of their burlingame home after they heard the bang. they got out their cell phone and recorded this video of the crash. this is the second time she's seen a plane crash from her home. in 1948 she witnessed a japanese airline plane slam into the pay. >> it was called a miracle crash because all 107 passengers on board lived.

boeing extends its deepest condolences to the family and friends of those who perished in the asiana airlinesccident in san francisco as well as its wishes for the recovery of those injured, boeing will join the u.s. national transportation safety board at their request to provide technical assistance to their investigation. and governor jerry brown released a short statement in response to the crash as well. it was just two sentences long. anne and i extend our deepest concerns and sympathy to the passengers who were aboard asiana flight 214 and to their families. we're grateful for the courage and swift response of the first responders whose actions surely prevented an even greater tragedy. we're standing by for the press conference coming out of san francisco international airport this morning. there are nine-hour delayyu on average for arriving flights. two of the runways remain shut down this morning. of course, the asiana airlines flight 214 still there on the runway as ntsb investigators start to sift through what they can find there. the voice cockpit recorder and the cockpit voice re

aircraft manufacturer released a statement, saying "boeing extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who perished in the asiana airlines flight 214 accident in san francisco as well as its wishes for the recovery of those injured. boeing will join the u.s. national transportation safety board at their request to provide technical assistance to their investigation." >>> and speaking of, the go team for the ntsb has now arrived on the scene of the crash. their official twitter account sent out this image early this morning. take a look. you can see investigator outside of the plane examining what remains, but it's what this other picture shows inside the plane what's so striking. you can get a closer look inside the charted plane. as you can see in the back right where the twitter sign is, you can see those oxygen masks deployed and the rows of seating thrown about inside that plane. tough to see, but if you look up close -- >> if we can keep this picture up. so many of us fly for jobs or travel. this is the summer travel season. you're inside that plane and you kind of listen to the instructions, but this is what happen

and asiana boeing triple seven airliner crashes on landing at san francisco international airport reportedly leaving at least two dead when this is claimed the tail broke off prior to touchdown before the plane burst into flames these a live pictures from the scene there at san francisco's international airport. another asylum invitation for n.s.a. leaker edward snowden as the president says he's ready to welcome the whistleblower if requested that softer the venezuelan leader offers him humanitarian asylum. deadly divide in egypt opponents and backers of ousted president morsi.

angel live angel live ;01 ;35 1;17 trt :1;31 la controversia que rodea el accidente del boeing 777 de asiana airlinesina... hoy, la junta nacional de seguridad en el transporte dio una informacion que creo controversia, al indicar que el piloto encargado del aterrizaje comento que instantes anteriores al accidente un destello que venia desde tierra lo cego por algunos segundos... justo momentos antes de estrellarse... el piloto aseguro que no se trataba de un laser pero... lo que fuera, lo afecto momentaneame nte.... aun se desconoce que pudo crear la fuerte luz que dice haber cegado sus ojos por cerca de 3 segundos... la pregunta ahora es porque la variedad de historias en un mismo accidente... entrevista deborah la vocera de la junta de seguridad indico que pasajeros que viajaban atras sufrieron experiencias muy diferentes durante el accidente en relacion a quiene viajaban a delante, lo que varia los testimonios que necesitan ser organizados para encontrar una sola verdad... mientras tanto desde la madrugada de hoy se iniciaron las tareas de limpieza de la pista 28 l del aeropuerto internacional de

asiana airliner. an asiana airplane. a boeing triple 7 on its way from seoul, south korea to the san francisco international airport when it crash landed. the picture you're looking at now is from someone who was onboard that plane and took that picture as he was leaving the plane to safety. other people on the plane also took pictures as they were leaving. some of the passengers who left the plane said they felt it coming. they thought the landing went down too quickly on approach and just before and landed just before he should have and try to get that airplane back up in the air and that is too late. that is according to the people onboard the plane. no official word yet on what might have caused this crash. that will happen in the days to come. the ntsb holding a press conference saying they are enroute. the go team is there but they are still enroute with the other members of the team to try to figure out exactly what happened here. that is the press conference that is going to happen in san francisco and that is a picture o

asiana airlines was still training on the job. lee kang-kook only had 43 hours flying the boeing 777. asiana airlines say it takes 60 hours to be considered fully qualified. he had never landed that type o aircraft at san francisco international before. tonight the national transportation safety board plans to interview the four pilots who were on the plane. we go live to san francisco where we heard from first responders today. jennifer? >> reporter: we heard a lot tod today. planes taking off and landing behind me of asiana flight 214 that's still sitting there on the tarmac as ntsb investigators are looking at the wreckage trying to figure out what went wrong. >> you can see the plane was on its belly. so we just, we just rushed, went right straight to it. >> help came fast to survivors of this deadly crash landing saturday. first responders overwhelmed by number of people able to help themselves before they cleared the plane. >> i was satisfied. i was -- i was happy. i felt like there was -- there was nobody left on that plane. >> reporter: there were two fatif fatalities. >> one o

, esas son las dos primeras conclusiones que arroja la investigacion del accidente del boeing 777 de asiana airlinesa los cuatro pilotos que comandaban el avion ha esclarecido aun mas la investigacion... entrevista deborah hersman segun la vocera de la junta en seguridad en transporte de los estados unidos, quiere asegurarse bien sobre lo que paso para no tener solo ideas, sino conclusiones claras de lo motivo el accidente pero dentro de sus afrimaciones, define que la aeronave iba 36 nudos por debajo de la velocidad minima establecida para aterrizar.... pues el avion volaba a 101 nudos y la exigencia minima debia ser 137 nudos ya a 200 pies de altura los pilotos empezaron a hacer correcciones pues el avion no se presentaba debidamente alineado en la pista segun lo indicaban las luces sensores que tiene la pista , ellos enseguida intentaron despegar nuevamente para abortar el aterrizaje pero era tarde... pero esta tragedia deja una leccion... entrevista deborah hersman por eso ... el departemamen to de seguridad indico que quiere asegurarse que la etapa de entrenamiento dentro de los vuelos trabajen

again, a boeing 777 operated by asiana airlines crashed while entering san francisco airport.ashed after touching down there. we are working to gather more information. as we learn more, we will pass it along to you. >>> edward snowden believed to be holed up in the moscow airport, a legal no man's land. the options of where to head may be growing. venezuela and bolivia are offering asylum to him. nicaragua will, if circumstances allow. jim maceda joins us with more on that. is there any reaction from snowden or anyone helping him with the new possibilities of asylum in latin america? >> hi there, craig. twitter is full of unbridled relief and pride of what he called a chavez vista taking the lead. this is possibly a fake account. who would expect anything less from snowden. no, no official or verifiable reaction. experts in criminal profiling say that after being holed up now and isolated for some two weeks in a heavily guarded room in a moscow airport hotel, snowden was probably feeling like his reality was about to crash down on him. stateless, powerless, feeling not like t

asiana airlines says the pilot only had 43 hours flight time with the boeing 777. federal investigators revealed the pilot struggled with the aircraft, almost stalled out in the seconds before those final minutes. about 7 seconds before the plane hit, the crew called for more speed. the plane was going dangerously slow and about a second and a half before impact, a crew member calls for a go around to avoid crashing but the ntsb says it's too soon to point any fingers. >> the ntsb conducts thorough investigations. we will not reach a determination of probable cause in the first few days we're on an accident scene. we want to make sure we gather all the evidence and the facts early in the investigation. >> reporter: officials are also investigating whether the airports or plane's equipment could have malfunctioned. and as you mentioned earlier, we will have another update later this morning. there is a plan press conference around 11:00 this morning. back to you in the studio. >> we know the pilot was in training. i believe he only had 43 hours on that 777. do we kn

. >> federal investigators are focusing on the final seconds of asiana airlines flight 214. the boeing 777 apparently came in too low and slow during land aing saturday and crashed at san francisco international airport. >> there were three pilots in the cockpit at the time of the crash. >> the pilot sitting in the left was still in training. it was his first landing at san francisco in a 777. next to him sat his instructor, a senior pilot who has logged more than 3,000 hours flying that type of plane. it was his first flight as an instructor pilot. >> this was the first time that he and the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown together. >> the senior pilot told the ntsb as the plane approached the runway he noticed it was flying at a slower speed than what the pilots had programmed on what's known as the auto throttle. >> at about 500 feet he realized that they were low. he told the pilot to pull back. >> the plane's landing gear hit the seawall at the end of the runway first, then the tail struck it and broke off. survivors say they had little warning. >> last couple of sec

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. >> shannon: out of san san francisco, the crash ever asiana airlines flight, boeing 7-7-7. two deaths and many, many more dozens injured and hospitalized. we are awaiting a live press conference from there. that will be live from the san francisco airport. as soon as we start to get details, we will take thru live. now back to egypt. the leadership of egypt is in flux. there are questions about what role the u.s. should or shouldn't be playing. retired general jack keen is here with insights. thank you for coming in today. it is changing moment by moment, the information we have about who is in leadership who, is not. what do you make of where we stand? 36 deaths and more than a thousand people injured. >> we are in a dynamic, volatile situation, certainly. it has the potential to get out of control. but hopefully, the military will not. the sooner they move to an interim government, where the islamists will participate, that will go a long way to quelling the demonstrations in the street. we have to recognize that there is a violent part of the islamist muslim brotherhood

determines the cause of the crash, asiana flight 214 is quick to defend the pilot who was landing the boeing 777 at a news conference the president of asiana airlines said and i quote, "all responsibility lies in the trainer co-pilot, not the train ee pilot, adding they were both experienced and following proper international procedures for training on the new aircraft. >> we have new information of the battle to get survivors off the burning asiana jet and save the flight crew members who were pinned by the safety devices. abc7 news report has coverage. >> the evacuation started badly, the wreckage is off the runway at sfo still as the investigation continues. this is a picture of flight attendant who was the last person off of the plane and suffered a broken tail boat but managed to evacuate dozens of passengers as the cabin spilled with toxic smoke and flames and says two of her fellow flight attendants were pinned under the evacuation slide when it opened inside of the plane and malfunctioned. they had to be rescued. the bravery of passengers like eugene is pretty amazing. he helped others to escape and took photos of the aftermath saying fligh

we now know at the helm during asiana airlines had never landed a boeing 777 at san francisco ranch nationalirport and only 43 hours experience flying one under his belt. what you don't know could put you at risk. joining us now, former ntsb managing director and active commercial pilot who also publishes the website jetwine.com. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you for inviting us. melissa: this story has revealed a lot about pilot training and how much is done on the job making a lot of people out there very nervous. what are the rules? >> in this case you have the first officer who has extensive flight experience in a 737 moving up. every pilot wants to do that, the bigger the plane, the more money you make. in this case the question is not only what was the copilot thinking allowing the speed to bleed off to almost 100 knots, what was the flying captain, the captain in the left seat doing, what role was he playing? the accident is completely inexplicable. melissa: as passengers i just flew over the weekend, we have it in our mind the person who has our lives in his or h

according to asiana airlines the pilot logged 10,000 hours as a pilot but 43 hours on the boeing 77 sen and it was his first time landing -- boeing 777 and it was his first time landing that type of plane at this airport. >> when we interview the crew, we'll get a lot more details about their activities, their work, their training, who was the pilot flying and the pilot in command. >> reporter: data recovered from two flight recorders shows the plane came in too slow and too low before the tail hit a seawall along the runway and broke off. passenger benjamin levy thought the landing was being aborted. >> i thought maybe we'd go back up and start flying again and provide another landing, but we went back down again. so it felt like slow motion. >> reporter: family members of the two teenage passengers who died are coming to san francisco from their home in china. the two girls were found outside the plane, but investigators say the crash may not have been what killed one of them. autopsies are being performed to determine if an emergency truck hit one of the girls as it raced to the scen

asiana flight 214 initiated legal action against boeing. the law firm handling the filing plans to go after asiana airlines in the next few days. both boeing and asiana airlines declined to comment. >>> "rolling stone" taking a lot of heat for this cover critics say it justifies dzhokhar tsarnaev and makes him look like a rock star. while he lay in the boat surrounded by s.w.a.t. teams and police an fbi negotiator mentioned a plea from an old wrestling coach which seems to convince dzhokhar to surrender. >>> no hard date for jodi arias' penalty phase for her trial. arias' attorneys are trying to avoid the jury's determination that she killed her boyfriend, travis alexander, in an especially cruel manner, they're trying to take that death penalty off the table. >>> bragging rights and home field advantage in the world series belonged to the american league this morning, ten a.l. pitchers combined on a shutout last night giving the american league a 3-0 victory over the national league. highlight of the night, oh, yeah, yankees closer mariano rivera making his final all-star experience before retiring. do you hear the smile in my

pkg sorprendentes giros da la investigacion del accidente aereo del boeing 777 perteneciente a la compaÑia asiana airlinesrello aterrizando en san francisco el pasado sabado y cuyo saldo deja hasta el momento dos pasajeros muertos, 8 en estado critico y 181 heridos... hoy en rueda de prensa, la vocera del departamento nacional de transporte y seguridad dio importante informacion que ayuda a esclarecer el accidente... entrevista segun refirio, el capitan de la nave tiene mucha experiencia en boeing 777, pero todo indica que quien piloteaba en el momento del aterrizaje era un miembro de entrenamiento que aunque tenia muchas horas de vuelo con otros tipos de aviones, era la primera vez que aterrizaba un 777 en san francisco. la aerolinea indicio que el capitan en entrenamiento lee kang kuk llevaba apenas 43 horas de experiencia volando el avion de larga distancia... segun la informacion tomada de la grabacion en la cabina y las instrucciones de vuelo, el motivo del accidente pudo darse por la inapropiada velocidad del avion para un correcto aterrizaje... entrevista por eso 7 segundos antes de estrellarse, lo

asiana is defending the pilot would landed the boeing 777. at a news conference in seoul the president of asiana airlines said and i quote, "all responsibility lies in the trainer co-pilot, not the train ee pilot." he said both were experimented and following proper international procedure for training on the new aircraft. >> new this morning south korea has announced they will inspect all boeing 77 aircraft owned and operated by asiana and korean air looking at engines and landing gear of the planes. the boeing 777 is known as one of the safest planes in the air. >> san francisco fire department held a briefing at san francisco international airport moments ago. the first responders talk about what they faced when they arrived at the burning plane. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has that part of the story. amy? >> yes, there are about 20 first responders here from the fire department and the police department talking about what they saw, what they did, moments after the crash. let's start with when they first got the call. >> the communications from the tower was "alert 3, alert 3, plane crash, plane crash." the female that dispatched us