ken smith is with us. we heard the air traffic communication with the pilot at asiana airlines. and there's an sfo fire diameter right on scene, so response was swift and hopefully effective here. when you see the smoke here as a firefighter, you guys and women come in there with equipment and ready to go. these are passengers that are going to have to inhale all of this. what are the extent of injuries we could see here in terms of what you're seeing? >> in terms of what i'm seeing, again, just looking at it, it almost looks like a calm scenario at this point where the fire was outside of the plane at that particular time in that photo you just had up. from a distance, again, depending on what's burning, if it was sitting down in the dirt, it's possible that, you know, it smoldered a little bit, and the black that you see is mostly going to be fuel if it's on the outside of that plane. if you notice there's no smoke coming out of -- appears to be no smoke coming out of the cockpit area where the slides are. so i would say it was not inside the cabin at that time. so, you know,

we were joined earlier by ken smith of sf fire. he says this really tells a big story here. because the smoke that you see engulfing this airplane, majority of it, fire and smoke was on outside. that is a big difference. had much of the smoke gone inside into the fuselage. there would have been a lot more injuries and deaths. right now only two deaths. he was clear to say this is actually a great sign. all that smoke is on the outside. we talked to benjamin levy, one of the survivors. he did feel smoke inside the fuselage. minimal to out here. this was one minute after the crash. the crash is at 11:27 a.m. this photo taken at 11:2 a.m. you see the magnitude of it on that flight. and on that tarmac. >> raj, you are also seeing the fire beginning to work its way to the fuselage. some of the other pictures, you, very accurately noted were before. you see that fire on the outside of the airplane. and then this is starting to impact but that gave these passengers essentially critical minutes to get out alive. what that you were accurate, raj, without that, had that broken out ins

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