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fire truck sprays water on Asiana Flight 214 after its crashed at san
Fransisco International Airport on saturday 6 Juky 2013, in San
Fransisco.Photo By AP/BERGER
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South
Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on
Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable
slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any
injuries.
The Boeing 777 was supposed to land on runway 28 left at
the airport, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura
Brown. She said the sequence of events was still unclear, but it
appeared the plane landed and then crashed.
A
video clip posted to
YouTube shows smoke coming from a silver-colored jet on the tarmac.
Passengers could be seen jumping down the inflatable emergency slides.
Television footage showed debris strewn about the tarmac and pieces of
the plane lying on the runway. Fire trucks had sprayed a white fire
retardant on the wreckage. A call to the airline seeking comment wasn't
immediately returned.
Asiana
is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean
Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States,
and joined the oneWorld alliance, anchored by American Airlines and
British Airways.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing.
The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular
long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from
one continent to another. The airline's website says its 777s can carry
between 246 to 300 passengers. The last time a large U.S. airline
lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300
taking off from JFK in 2001.
Smaller airlines have had crashes
since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight
operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on
Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a
house.
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