. >> new information by the national transportation safety board raises questions about the experience. >> yes. he was only halfway through training and the training pilot had less experience. investigators reveal the plane's main landing gear hit sfo first. >> the national transportation safety board confirmed two flights seated in the jump seat in the back of the plane were ejected on impact but survived. >> well, ntsb chair just wrapped up a news conference a short i'm time ago. >> national transportation safety board says that the crew has been cooperative and forth right in interviews. interview was the three captains are completed and the interview with first officer is being wrapped thup afternoon. whatever went wrong is not due to a lack of experience. nntsb chair says the pilot flying was experienced on other large craft but still learning on the boeing 777. the instructor pilot seated know. him was in command the inspector pilot stated he was a pilot in command. sitting in the right seat. this was the first time he and the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown togeth

jennifer planning to turn her video into the national transportation safety board. the national transportation safety board sen couraging others to do the same thing in case the untrained eye might see what theirs might in burlingame abc 7 news. >> officials say if it's not for the heroic actions, cool under fire actions for flight attendants more people would have died in this crash. these pictures show asiana cabin manager carrying passengers off the plane, look at her. she was recognized for her efforts to lead dozens to safety she. was so busy that she only learned she broke her tail bone after being taken to the hospital for examination. incredible. well, a former safety chair of the airline pilot says says investigators will be taking a look at who is fly whigt crashed and the pilot's training. mark matthews spoke with the captain this afternoon. for an experienced pilot it's thoord understand how this could have happened. >> i think this accident shows thaws there may be lacking in training. >> captain dick deets flew commercial airliners 30 years and says ani

jennifer planning to turn her video into the national transportation safety board. the national transportation safety board sen couraging others to do the same thing in case the untrained eye might see what theirs might in burlingame abc 7 news. >> officials say if it's not for the heroic actions, cool under fire actions for flight attendants more people would have died in this crash. these pictures show asiana cabin manager carrying passengers off the plane, look at her. she was recognized for her efforts to lead dozens to safety she. was so busy that she only learned she broke her tail bone after being taken to the hospital for examination. incredible. well, a former safety chair of the airline pilot says says investigators will be taking a look at who is fly whigt crashed and the pilot's training. mark matthews spoke with the captain this afternoon. for an experienced pilot it's thoord understand how this could have happened. >> i think this accident shows thaws there may be lacking in training. >> captain dick deets flew commercial airliners 30 years and says ani

investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene. you saw them walking on the live picture on the runway. they took a first look at the wreckage this morning and they are returning to the scene right now. >> both of the so-called black boxes that record flight information data and the pilots' voices are on their way to washington, d.c. for analysis. >> this morning the two passengers killed in the crash are being identified at 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of a group of middle school students and teachers taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. they had also planned to visit stanford university first. >> this morning at least 49 of the people injured in the crash are in bay area hospitals in critical condition. two of the runways at sfo are still closed this morning and will likely remain so for the next several days. passengers can expect long delays, as well as flight cancellations again today. we are learning a lot more this morning about the search for answers in the fatal airliner crash. as we mentioned, the

at 6:00. >> before we go, here are the latest developments of asiana flight 214. >> national transportation safety board saying the plane came in too slowly. interview was pilots being conducted today. >> yes. the safety board says it will work with the fbi to map out debris scatter add cross the air field. >> that is going to do it for us. thanks for joining us. > is is "world news." tonight dramatic new from the crash landing in san francisco. passengers sprinting away, what the pilots were doing in the seven seconds before the crash and the tiny flight attendant injured but carrying passengers on her back to safety. >>> the tape on trial, the father of trayvon martin today fighting to prove that his son was pleading for help. >>> swept up. nearly 200 people caught in dangerous rip currents this weekend. how could you break free? >>> good evening. it's good to be with you on this monday night after a holiday weekend rocked by so many questions about that plane crash in san francisco.

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. >> investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene. they have conducted a preliminary inspection of the plane wreckage shortly after arriving at sfo around 11:30 last night. >> in fact the ntsb chairwoman flew into the bay ear last night. she tells us they have recovered both of the so-called black box that is include flight information data and pilots' voices and both are being flown to d.c., as you mentioned, for analysis. >> and asiana airlines is confirm the two passengers killed in the crash are 16-year-old girls from china and we've learned they were part of a 35-member group of middle school students and teachers taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. the night originated in shanghai with a stop in seoul, south korea. >> at least 49 were in bay area hospitals in critical condition. as of late last night. the hospitals have not updated the condition of their patients this morning but as soon as they do we will bring that to you. >> two of the runways at sfo remain closed at this hour. arriving flights are being delayed near

a press conference from the national transportation safety board was supposed to start at the bottom of the hour here on cnn, but i imagine they are trying to get all of their information together before they come out and give the news media information. of course, they want as much accuracy as possible. if you look at this picture, you can see the engine still on the right side of the plane. the one on the left side is not there. where is it? people have been asking me on social media and asking others. we don't know. the officials can tell us that. i would imagine it's somewhere close to the airport, and that it's at least partially intact. according to national transportation safety board former vice chairman, robert francis, who's here with us as well, he said part of the information, much of it, if not most of it, will come from the flight data recorders, the cockpit recorders, which are located in the tail section of the airplane, which was broken off as well. this is from the san francisco airport air traffic control. just in to cnn as they are talking to this plane. listen --

we expect to hear from the national transportation safety board. was traveling too slowly and low before it hit the sea wall in front of the runway. we are learning more

even carrying one on her back in spite of having a broken tail bone. >> according to national transportation safety board passengers in plane crashes like that are more likely to survive today than years ago because of improvements in safety technology. but that means more injuries to treat cuts, breezes and burn that's tested rooms on saturday. nick smith is wlif a look at the rush to treat. >> doctors say once injuries have been treated their focus shifts keeping an eye out for breathing that can sometimes follow finl spinal injuries and broken bone autos you go through doctor mode. >> emergency workers that saw a video expected mass casualty autos see the burn part of the plane it's going to be crushes. there is bound to be compression fractures. >> according to the doctor it can be credited with keeping passengers seated. this 39-year-old suffer survived the crash. >> we're sitting in that fuj lauj. yes, we're skmaerd injured but still alive. >> doctors point out once injuries have been treated, their focus shifts and describes the crash victims he's treating as classic poly drama paish yechblt a box

this is from the national transportation safety board inside the aircraft. look at that.ke of that? >> two things. this scene couldn't have happened 15 years ago because newer aircraft and the 777 is one of the newest and had a perfect record almost until this. the g-7 force was strengthened. they can withstand greater g-forces. if seats collapse on top of each other there are more casualties and injuries. the fact most of the seats held is a very, very good sign. and the fact the interior wasn't burned means that so many people were able to live. but cabin survivability has been a big push in the united states by the ntsb and faa. they want to get people to survive a crash. this one was survivable. >> all right. these are new pictures into cnn from the national transportation safety board. do we have another? there we go. the outside of the aircraft. >> the outside of the aircraft because so much burning took place after persons got off, it looks so very familiar to another case i worked on which was the case of air france making the runway overshoot in toronto. just as

the head of the national transportation safety board said the plane was well below target speed. >> about three seconds prior to impact the flight data recorder recorded its lowest speed of 103 knots. at this time the engines were at about 50% power. >> she said the plane was coming in too slow as it approaches the runway. it picked up speed in the last three seconds. the pilots were trying to adjust speed to make another attempt at a landing. investigators are speaking with the pilots on board. spokespersons said a trainee was at the controls and a veteran pilot was giving instructions. they say the veteran only qualified to be an instructor three weeks ago. south korean media say he was overseeing a copilot for the first time. emergency crews in canada are searching for more than 40 people believed to be missing after a run away train exploded. at least 13 people were killed in the next a town in quebec. the unmanned train was 72 cars long and carrying crude oil and rolled away from the station in the early hour of saturday. derailed and exploded in the town flattening dozens of buildin

according to the national transportation safety board the survival rate in the plane crashes is actually very high, 95 percent. those who brace for impact and those at back of the plane doing better. the impact itself is not the only danger for passengers. >> if you can't instantly determine the source and severity of the smoke you must consider it to be a threat to the airplane. >> the fell aviation administration advises people to sit as close as possible to the exits and not to sleep during take offs and landing. >> new details on teresa heinz kerry wife of secretary of state john kerry. she may have had a seizure before being hospitalized. a source close to the fell says that she had symptoms consist went a seizure. show now is undergoing a medical evaluation after a boston hospital the she is in critical but stable condition and secretary john kerry is with her. teresa heinz is heir to the heinz ketchup fortune. she is 74. >> now, what else is going on outside as the brees have scared away the cloud cover but for the coast and it has not scared up any rain. you can see we are quiet

the chair of the national transportation safety board is expected to arrive foyt to head up the investigation on the deadly crash at sfo. the asiana passenger jet came had in to land at sfo, it was 11:2 this morning. witnesses say the plane hit tail-first just yards short of runway 28l. the plane eventually came to a rest on the grass and dirt on the side of the runway and caught fire. passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides. >> most of the 307 people on board made it off okay. there were 291 passengers, and 16 crew members. two people are confirmed dead. they were both chinese passport holders according to south korean officials. a total of 182 people were taken to air hospitals and 49 of them were seriously hurt and at this hour everyone has been accounted for. we have team coverage with crews covering all aspects of this story. >> we begin with ktvu's jade hernandez live at sfo, where authorities have held a number of news briefings today. jade. >> reporter: the airport at this time of the day does not usually look like this, but two of sfo's four runways are closed, mea

and now, as national transportation safety board investigators address why the plane crashed, we're learning who the two victims are, but still this morning, there is conflicting information from the san mateo county coroner. he said one victim was just 16 years old. the other is an adult. but at a news conference this morning, the president of asiana airlines reportedly told the media one of the dead was born in 1996, the other in 1997, making both of those victims teenagers. that information coming from an nbc news translator who listened to the briefing. what we do know is both are female and were traveling on chinese passports. the coroner said both of the victims were wearing street clothing, so it appears they were not crew members. one body was found at the tail of the end near the end of the runway, the other by the fuselage just before the inflatable chute before the wing. the coroner said he will be doing autopsies on both of the victims today to determine the exact cause of death. there are indications the girl was traveling with at least one other person, but officials have not b

what are we learning from the ntsb, the national transportation safety board, adam? reporter: john, they're confirming what a lot of eyewitnesses said t was coming in low and slow. they gave out basically a timeline that really describes the last seven seconds. everything seemed fine when it was on short final and cleared to land here in san francisco. but seven seconds out the crew first realized they were coming in too slow. over the course of the next seven seconds it evolves to the point where the, the handles shaking the way they fly the plane of course. they tried to abort the landing but it was too late. as a part of that the crew has given a couple of details so far but the ntsb plans on meeting with crew today, speaking with them as well as as the pilots. but earlier today, on fox news channel they were talking about, that talking about the plans for this investigation to go forward by talking with the crew. take a listen. >> so we do want to interview all four of those pilots. we want to understand who was the pilot flying. who was the pilot in command at t

the national transportation safety board is looking at pilot experience in the 777 as part of the investigation. the crash killed two people and sent 180 to local hospital autos we're getting new pictures of the two chinese girls who died. the two were best friends. how their classmates are paying tribute to them coming up at 4:30. good afternoon, everyone. >> we have dramatic new video of the first seconds after the crash. you can see the emergency chutes and passengers running for safety before emergency vehicles roll up. >> these pictures were shot by an 18-year-old from san jose. she was in a burlingame hotel saturday just set up camera to get video of planes landing when she witnessed the tragedy. >> she spoke with abc 7 news. our interview is ahead at 5:00. the ntsb released new information about the moments just before the crash, how slowly the plane is flying in seconds before it went down. investigators are questioning the pilots right now, trying to get answers including the asiana captain in control relatively new to flying this plane. the boeing 777. they're also reviewing video foo

i've just spoken with debra hersman who is the chair of the national transportation safety board. and she will be flying out here. 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, and we have ale aid our city's sympathy to the people of the republic of korea. counsel general han is here. the passengers and their families are our first priority and we'll continue to provide them the support they need. right now i have the fire chief john hazewhite, police chief greg sur. of course you heard from the director of our airport john martin and special agent david johnson from the fbi. let me now turn it over to doug jagrel who is the public information officer for our airport for more details. >> thank you. to confirm 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 aircra aircraft. for a count of the passengers and the status of those passengers i'll tur

station and the national transportation safety board. the station misidentified the crew of the 777 that crashed at a san francisco airport last. last three passengers were killed and dozens were hurt when the plane approached the runway to low and slow and struck the sea wall. friday ktvu broadcast insulting a phony names of the pilot saying they were confirmed by the national transportation safety board. they have apologized and admitted in intern it acted improperly. they say the prank badly damage the reputation of the airline and its pilots >> texas gov. perry is expected to sign a controversial abortion bill into law some time in the next few days. the texas state senate passed the bill late friday... the house approved a on wednesday. the bill includes a number of restrictions that critics say will effectively shut down most clinics that perform abortions in texas. among the provisions of the bill is a regulation that outlaws abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the health of the woman is in immediate danger >> we put the

the delay will continue the as long as the national transportation safety board safety board investigatenvestigates. how long will that be? only the ntsb knows. from sfo 7 news. >> as you heard at the top of the newscast. ceo of asian airlines arrived today in the bay area to meet with survivors. he flew into sfo asian flight 214 the same flight number of course of the plane that crashed on saturday. more details now on the intensity of the media crush and his attempt to avoid it from 7 news reporter. >> it was a mob scene at san francisco international airport as 61-year-old ceo of asian airlines walked out of customs accompanied by san francisco police officers. >> get to the side. >>reporter: when it became clear that the airline chief did not intend to stop and talk with reporters, he was mobbed by a group of reporters and photographers. korean journalist told us there was a similar scene when tl he left korea. >> i was training to interview him but he went out of view. >>reporter: head of asian airlines to rae treat back into customs and left the airport to another exit. at the crow

. >> the national transportation safety board wrapped up its final briefing about an hour ago. we have detailed animation showing how it happened. voice rofrders reveal the pilot did not talk about the declining speed until just nine seconds before impact. >> one of the three warned the plane was highing -- flying too high, then too low that. happened just 34 seconds before the crash. >> a light reported seeing could have been a reflection from the sun. today, clarifying nobody else reported seeing it investigators described severity of the damage. the floor of the plane disintegrated before the rear set of doors. that explains how treated and released of the four flight attendants were ejected from the fuselage. tonight we'll take a look at what pilots do to control the pilot and a local surgeon that helped treat some of the injured. >> international journey decided america's cup teams from itally and new zealand won their appeal. that means there will be a real race in the america's cup. >> there were question about the safety of the boats after the death of andrew simpston i

all is speculation up until this point but national transportation safety board folks goring to pull the facts they're going to look at black and white this, will be very clear, very shortly. >> again, captain nash do you think we can find a cause soon, you were saying in a couple days. is that typical? >> no. because normally if you have a major are aircraft crash there is a lot of damage and possibly flight deck crew does not survive but in this case you have the crew alive, breathing and they're going to be able to find flight data recorders quickly. hopefully they won't be damaged they probably aren't because impact appears to have struck forward from the tail. those things are back into the air part so they'll probably be fine. and they'll be able po-to-put this together in relatively short terms but because of the legal issues they're going to have to go through every step and it is dotted i's crossed t's. >> all right. thank you so much for that information we appreciate it. captain chuck nash. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure marianne. >> we'll have a live report from lo

the head of the national transportation safety board deborah hersman: >> when we interview those four crew members, we're going to get a lot more details about their activities, about their work, about their training. we're going to be looking to correlate all that info with what we're finding on the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders. >> reporter: investigators are focusing partly on the pilot, who had logged just 43 hours on the boeing 777. it was lee gang-guk's first time landing a 777 at san francisco's airport, though he had landed other craft there many times, an airline spokesman said. he did have nearly 10,000 flight hours on other aircraft. but whatever caused the crash, remarkably, 305 of the 307 passengers and crew members survived. >> when i stand up i saw the tail, where the kitchen located, is all missing. there was a big hole there, and i can see through the hole to the runway, the ground, and there was a lot of dust in the cabin. >> reporter: some of the survivors quickly tweeted accounts of their harrowing escape, even as the rescue operation was still u

all is speculation up until this point but national transportation safety board folks goring to pullut the facts they're going to look at black and white this, will be very clear, very shortly. >> again, captain nash do you think we can find a cause soon, you were saying in a couple days. is that typical? >> no. because normally if you have a major are aircraft crash there is a lot of damage and possibly flight deck crew does not survive but in this case you have the crew alive, breathing and they're going to be able to find flight data recorders quickly. hopefully they won't be damaged they probably aren't because impact appears to have struck forward from the tail. those things are back into the air part so they'll probably be fine. and they'll be able po-to-put this together in relatively short terms but because of the legal issues they're going to have to go through every step and it is dotted i's crossed t's. >> all right. thank you so much for that information we appreciate it. captain chuck nash. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure marianne. >> we'll have a live report from

the national transportation safety board is now investigating that.nd cockpit voice recorders already being reviewed at the ntsb lab in washington. for its part asiana has already ruled out any problems with the aircraft. and company officials insist the pilot was a veteran with more than 10,000 hours of flight experience. much of it on 747s. but he was just being trained on the 777. only 43 hours at the helm of this particular aircraft. in fact, it was his first time landing a 777 in san francisco. >> it would be a mistake for any of us to say that, well, somebody who has only 40 hours in this new type of airplane but he's been flying big heavy turbo jets for a long time, that means he really isn't up to snuff. because they would never have turned him loose unless he had finished all the training courses and all the check lines. >> reporter: why it happened and who or what is to blame is now the focus of the safety investigation. and even if human error was a factor, the fact that 99% of the passengers survived will surely count in the pilot's and th

the team from the national transportation safety board is on its way to the scene now and scheduled to arrive this afternoon. >>> now to the crash of ashe anna flight 214 in san francisco. new video of the ill-fated boeing 777 gives us an up close and personal view of that damage. nbc's danielle leigh is live outside san francisco international airport. danielle, good morning. >> reporter: richard, good morning. and wreckage from the plane is still sitting on the runway behind me this morning. is a stark reminder of the chaos from saturday. investigators are going to be going through that debris today piece by piece. meanwhile, the plane's black box recording is already offering clues about what went wrong. amidst the charred remains of asiana flight 214, investigators have obtained what may be one of their greatest clues. they say the black box voice recording from inside the cockpit captures crews calling for increased speed just seven seconds before the crash. 1.5 seconds before impact, the crew unsuccessfully tries to abort the landing. >> the approach speed was 137 knots. i will t

this is taken from the national transportation safety board. it shows the oxygen masks down, the seats a mess and you can imagine the chaos of trying to get out of that cabin. we'll be right back. peninsula is still closed. people at the hallmark house apartments called to report the fire. emergency personnel closed woodside road this morning and said it might not reopen until midnight. crews arrived to find heavy flames and smoeke. crews also rushed 16 residents and two firefighters to the hospital. more than 100 firefighters responded. the injuries are not considered life threatening. >> occupants were saying they heard lots of alarms ringing and they were starting to do their evacuations and get out of the building. >> 97 people live in the apartment building. there's an evacuation center set up at the nearby fair oaks community center. the cause of that fire is still under investigation tonight. >>> well, we could find out as soon as tomorrow whether the new eastern span of the bay bridge will open as planned on labor day weekend. cal trans

we just heard from the national transportation safety board. there were a number of passengers onboard, obviously. some of them were talking about -- are talking now about what they saw and what they felt. this is an eyewitness to the crash. let's listen. >> i saw it coming and i was just watching planes come in and this one i saw that it looked normal at first. it was taking the same angle that they always come in like this. the wheels were down and then -- about three or five seconds out i started calling to my fiance and said this doesn't look right. this doesn't look right. the wheels were too low too soon. this is the run wway. i was watching the wheels. it hit like that and the whole thing collapsed immediately. it never really had a chance. it was like a really blunt, blunt trauma to the whole plane. it just pancaked immediately. it collapsed and slid and then started to slide and pivot. it was counterclock wise. then the wings caught on the tarmac there. then they flew off and just about -- the whole inside of the cabin went orange. all

my name is debby hurttman i am the chairman of the national transportation safety board.re with our teams. we are launching to the crash that occurred in san francisco international airport earlier today. we had a boeing triple 7 asiana flight 214 that was originating in seoul, south korea. destined for san francisco. they were coming in on runway 28 left at san francisco international airport. they crashed on landing. we have a number of investigators or launching with us here from headquarters. they are being led by investigator in charge bill english. we have number of subject matter experts who will be leading specific teams. this those teams will be focused on operations, human performance, survival factors, the airport, airport operations and people on the air crash into systems, the structures and the power plant. we are going to be supported by a number of team members here in washington, d.c. they are in the process of collecting information on air traffic control operations, on weather and on maintenance issues. they will be able to gather information while the

the national transportation safety board said, people did not begin evacuating the aircraft until 90onds later, when a fire erupted. occurred as the pilot checked with the tower at the airport. kron 4's charles clifford reports. as the n-t-s-b continues the crash.survivors were able to return to the scene just four days after terrifying accident. this is video with our helicopter partnership with a-b-c 7 news. in it you can see charter buses arriving at the scene and the survivors out on the tarmac observing the wreckage. it is unclear what they were doing although they were accompanied by n-t-s-b agents. while the pilots and crew are under investigation, some of the flight attendants came out publicly to speak at a news conference yesterday. six of the twelve who were on board agreed to speak, but several were overwhelemed by tears. six other attendants remain in the hospital. some of the attendants helped passengers get off passengers could get off the plane. among those injured in the crash we're three flight attendants who were seated near the back of the plane and ejected when t

there is lots of news, including a press conferences and the national transportation safety board has recovered the black boxes from the boeing 777 as they continue to investigate. they began in the wee hours of the night. they hope to interview the crew today, too, to get more answers. emergency officials releasing audio from a fire department dispatcher. >> you are approaching the north field checkpoint. i have what appears to be a moderate column of smoke coming from a downed plane. make this a red alert please... >> jamie: take a look at this animation of the crash, too. as the plane approaches, it slams into the runway. the tail literally napping off. the plane then veers off the runway, where it catches fire. adam housley is live at the san francisco international airport, where he has been monitoring all the developments. adam, we expect this news conference. what sort of update do you think we will get? >> reporter: well, first of all, we are expected to hear an updated number of victims. we are told more than 180 people were transported after that crash yesterday. to put that

you are watching the news at noon and the chair of the national transportation safety board who has revealed new information on the flight of 214 at sfo. and deborah revealed steps they are taking as they try to determine what brought down the triple seven. they will interview the flight crew. including all four pilots who were on board. investigators are also reviewing the pilots activities in the # two hours before the flight and checking for anything that might effect performance such as fatigue. illness or medication. and seems from washington will review both the flight data record are and the cockpit voice recorder. >> the chair said there were no distress calls and no steep descent curves. >> we have more and more from sfo general and ntsb investigation. we begin live near san francisco airport where the first emergency crews to arrive on the scene describe what they found inside and outside the burning plane. >> good afternoon, brian. >> good afternoon. they went through this and it is amazing. they said it is a surreal experience. a lot of adrenaline was rushing. and quiet experienc

investigators with the national transportation safety board are now on the scene. they conducted a preliminary inspection of the plane wreckage shortly after arriving at sfo about 11:30 last night. >> they say they have recovered both of the so-called black boxes that record flight information data and the pilots' voices. both are being flown to washington d.c. right now for analysis. >> the two killed are 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of a 35 member group of middle school teachers and students taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. the flight original lated in shanghai with a stop in seole, south korea. >> two of the runways remain closed. passengers are being told to expect long delays and flight cancellations again today. and we are learning more this morning about the search for answers in this fatal airliner crash. as we mentioned, the ntsb is on the scene. their south korean counterparts are on the way. matt keller joins us live from sfo with the latest from a briefing, matt, that was held just a short time ago? >> yeah. actually it was a

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evidence which explain what's seems like a slow clean up to anyone other than the national transportation safety board. >> when an airport has three runways instead of four there will be passengers inconvenienced. >> waiting about three and a half hours. >> at this stage we're thinking friday morning. so we don't know. >> sfo cancelled roughly half of the flights today. delays have been the norm. some have been delayed by days and one at least was greatful for it. elle tried to get a seat on the plane. >> airport says delays will continue as long as the national transportation safety board investigates. how long will that be? only ntsb knows. >> our reporting on the crash continues now on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. we have coverage at 11:00 and updates any time on abc 7 news.com. >> three women held captive nearly a decade are speaking for the first tirjs they're letting everyone know they're doing great. >> i want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with family and friends and it's been unbelievable. >> i was say thank you. >> looking forward to my brand new life. >> the three were abduct

national transportation safety board released a statement saying these jets have just one other major accident in its 18 years of service. >> it was a similar crash at london's heathrow airport. a '777 landed a thousand feet short of the runway and then slid on it to. nobody was hurt in that crash. the plane had ice pellets in the fuel. >> let's go live to abc7 news reporter sergio quinn tan in with more from sfo. >> right now they are still in the process of trying to get a lot of these flights that have backed up, glaus was a ground stoppage into the air. unfortunately they're only working with two of their runways, as has been passed along in a briefing we saw about an hour ago. here's what is going on right here. this is a pretty busy time for flights on a regular day. there's a pretty good backup of traffic and there's a whole lot of people who are trying to unload their luggage so they can go into the terminal. right now, inside the terminal, a whole lot of people are just checking the boards to actually see how they're going to be able to get out of here the status of their fly

that is deborah hersman, the chairwoman was the national transportation safety board holding a press conference at san francisco international airport. as you see there on the right of the screen, that's exclusive video in the crash. it will be up on the screen and bring in richard quest. you're with me? >> yes, i am,en deed. >> okay. richard -- >> information -- >> we did. we did. i want to go over some of it with you right now. let me go through this. the speed she said on the approach. this is what she said according to the cockpit voice recording. right? she said the speed on approach 137 knots and then went back and questioned about it. she said it was significantly below 137 knots. did you hear that? >> yes, i did. we know that it was considerably below that because if you look at other online resources, we know that the speed dropped considerably below 137 knots. but even that would have been on the low side. i mean, we are talking about 109, 110 knots according to some people so we know that the speed in those last seconds is when the aircraft is already too low the speed was

this just one of many new details coming from the national transportation safety board. dan simons joins us now from international airport. you arrived at that airport just after the plane crashed, and you have been there reporting to us for almost 24 hours straight now. walk us through the investigation, the details that we are learning. >> i was listening to your conversation earlier with jim tillman. i think you zeroed in on some of the important points, but i don't think you can really hammer home enough that these guys, the flight crew, seemed to realize that there was a real issue seconds before that plane crashed. sfwlu gleen some of the data from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, and it's this. they really needed to increase their speed. if you hear some of the witness statements and also from the passengers, they seem to indicate that the plane was too low and that the engines revved up just before the plane was about to touch down. i want you to listen now the to the ntsb chairwoman who boils things down second by second. take a look. >>

investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene.icture on the runway. they took a first look at the wreckage this morning and they

chairperson of the national transportation safety board. >> the question was whether or not we had thelowest speed that the crew achieved. i will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots. xxxx we're not talking about a few knots. we still have to corroborate some information. as i mentioned, this was a preliminary mention of the recorders. the 137 knots came from the crew conversation about their approach speed. we have to take another look at the raw data and corroborate it with radar and air traffic information to make sure we have a very precise speed. but again, we are not talking about a few knots here or there. we're talking about a significant amount of speed below 137.

. >> new information by the national transportation safety board raises questions about the experiencee was only halfway through training and the training pilot had less experience. investigators reveal the plane's main landing gear hit sfo first. >> the national transportation safety board confirmed two flights seated in the jump seat in the back of the plane were ejected on impact but survived. >> well, ntsb chair just wrapped up a news conference a short i'm time ago

each of those groups is headed by a national transportation safety board person. under those groups, though, you'll have representatives from the faa and then parties to the investigation that consist of industry and other folks that can provide a level of assistance to the board, and a particular level of expertise, that the board doesn't necessarily have in-house. so we'll have representatives from the airline, you'll have it from the manufacturer, like boeing, pratt and whitney are the engines. so you'll have those folks as well helping the ntsb develop the facts, conditions, and circumstances. >> typically, in case s like this, greg, and again, i don't want you to -- well, i guess i am going to ask you to a speculate extent here, but don't speculate too much. but in cases like this, again, we know that based on reports from our meteorologists there, 65 degrees, partly cloudy, no fog, winds somewhere between 5 and 10 miles per hour. it does not sound like the elements were much of a factor. it would seem as if, again, seem as if it would have to be one of two t

evidence which explain what's seems like a slow clean up to anyone other than the national transportation safety board when an airport has three runways instead of four there will be passengers inconvenienced. >> waiting about three and a half hours. >> at this stage we're thinking friday morning. so we don't know. >> sfo cancelled roughly half of the flights today. delays have been the norm. some have been delayed by days and one at least was greatful for it. elle tried to get a seat on the plane. >> airport says delays will continue as long as the national transportation safety board investigates. how long will that be? only ntsb knows. >> our reporting on the crash continues now on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. we have coverage at 11:00 and updates any time on abc 7 news.com. >> three women held captive nearly a decade are speaking for the first tirjs they're letting everyone know they're doing great. >> i want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with family and friends and it's been unbelievable. >> i was say thank you. >> looking forward to my brand new life. >> the three were abducted a

national transportation safety board says of the three people in the cockpit he was the only one whoaw it. it could have within a reflection from the sun. >> salvage crews will begin to take apart the fuselage tonight. pieces will be moved to a hangar for storage. airport hope that's will be done over the tweaked repair and reopen the runway by next week. new details from the ntsb about the condition of what remains of asiana flight 214. wayne freedman has more now on how the plane held up. from video and wreckage on the runway behind me there with containers you might conclude no one would have walked away from what happened on saturday. today, from ntsb some of the nitty gritty showing bits and pieces. little pieces and big one which aside from losing its tail did a remarkable job of holding together in the front section. the chairman told what a firefighter saw he told our investigators he went in to the left and durned right, that the seats in that section of the aircraft were almost pristine. he said it looked like if you just fluffed pillows you can turn around and it could go

we are awaiting a news conference by the national transportation safety board. so far as we know, they have begun some preliminary looks at the data recorder, for instance, those black boxes, as we call them, have already been shipped to washington. they are already downloading some of the data so they can know a little bit at this point. but what we also know is that the ntsb doesn't dribble out information it gets bit by bit. it tends to collect it and look at all of it before it gives you their kind of big-picture story. we do know some things that are happening, that happened as those, what must have been terrified passengers, came down on that plane. they said that there was absolutely no announcement that, in fact, something was about to take place, and they felt that they were coming in too low. we have had our richard quest report to us that some of the data that he has seen suggests that that plane came in at too steep an angle and was traveling too slowly. so, lots of hints about what happened, but it isn't over until the ntsb issues its report. a shor

we are expecting in about 30 minutes the chief investigator for the national transportation safety boardteam flying in from washington wa deposition d dc. according to some sur vooirs and witnesses, the tail section hit first. the plane burst into flames. passengers had to scramble to get through the escape chute. the more severe injured were taken out by fire res crew crews. they are saying it is a miracle so many people survived without injury. >> to have 123 roughly walk away from this given the -- the condition of the plane is -- is incredible to me sgli did survey it from looking in the rear of the plane. you know, there was a lot of collapsed seats, a lot of the plane was on fire so quite a bit of dpaj. quite a bit of damage to that plane. again, it's a miracle really that we had so many survivors. >> the bodies of the two dead were found on the tarmac when crews did arrive. the san francisco public health grief counselors were also on the scene to help support some of the survivors as well as family and friends. anl. >> linda, we've been looking at leigh pictures of the plane. i i