Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airport
Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airport
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Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airportAsiana Airlines said the flight, which had originated in Shanghai, had carried 291 passengers and 16 crew members. Most were Chinese, Korean and US nationals. There were also three Indians on board the plane. -
Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airportThe crash was the first-ever fatal accident involving the Boeing 777, a popular long-range jet that has been in service since 1995. It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the United States since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009. -
Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airportMore than 180 people were taken to nine area hospitals, but the majority had relatively minor injuries. As of Saturday evening the number of fatalities stood at two while at least five people were reported in critical condition. -
Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airportA San Francisco airport spokesman said that a component of the facility's instrument landing system that tracks an incoming airplane's glide path has been out of service in recent weeks and was not operational on Saturday. -
Asiana Airlines flight crashes while landing at San Francisco airportFederal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the plane was coming from South Korea and was supposed to land on runway 28 left at San Francisco International Airport. She said the sequence of events was still unclear, but it appeared the plane landed and then crashed.
