Jul 6, 2013, 5:58 pm
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OZ 214 ICN-SFO (reg no HL-7742), a 2006 Boeing 777-200ER with P&W PW4090 engines; flew ICN - KIX - ICN immediately prior (not as OZ 214). 291 passengers and 16 crew on board. 3 people dead, 48 seriously injured, 132 less so.
Aircraft landed short on approach (VFR weather, ILS out of service, PAPI working) impacting the seawall delimiting runway 28L with main landing gear and then the tail 11:28 PDT, careering down the runway to a stop and ensuing fire. The empennage and both engines separated from the fuselage, and fire from an oil drip in engine no. 2 burnt a significant part of the upper forward fuselage.
Runway 28L / 10R was closed until 1700 PDT 12 July; all SFO runways are open.
Here is a Link to the Flightaware track. (6 Jul 2013).
Link to original BBC article; Link to BBC photo show
Update: 08 July 2013
Summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 09 July 2013
SF Gate summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 10 July 2013
NBC video and summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 11 July 2013
San Jose Mercury summary of final NTSB press conference
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OZ 214 ICN-SFO (reg no HL-7742), a 2006 Boeing 777-200ER with P&W PW4090 engines; flew ICN - KIX - ICN immediately prior (not as OZ 214). 291 passengers and 16 crew on board. 3 people dead, 48 seriously injured, 132 less so.
Aircraft landed short on approach (VFR weather, ILS out of service, PAPI working) impacting the seawall delimiting runway 28L with main landing gear and then the tail 11:28 PDT, careering down the runway to a stop and ensuing fire. The empennage and both engines separated from the fuselage, and fire from an oil drip in engine no. 2 burnt a significant part of the upper forward fuselage.
Runway 28L / 10R was closed until 1700 PDT 12 July; all SFO runways are open.
Here is a Link to the Flightaware track. (6 Jul 2013).
Link to original BBC article; Link to BBC photo show
Update: 08 July 2013
Summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 09 July 2013
SF Gate summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 10 July 2013
NBC video and summary of NTSB press conference
Update: 11 July 2013
San Jose Mercury summary of final NTSB press conference
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the sensitive nature of an aircraft crash, Senior Moderators ask that posts be made keeping the surviving passengers, crewmembers and their families in mind. Posts that do not comply with TOS (off-topic and dilatory posts, OMNI, conspiracies, inflammatory, etc.) will be summarily deleted.
Asiana Airline OZ214 777 crash at SFO (6 Jul 2013)
Jul 6, 2013, 2:34 pm
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I get the impression that this must have been as harrowing as the crash - the very sudden stop in only a thousand feet or so. Heartening to hear that nearly all the pax made it off.
Jul 6, 2013, 2:35 pm
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As a consultant who deals with matters related to fires and explosions, I won't board an airplane wearing clothing fabricated from anything other than natural fiber... no synthetics.
I don't want to, and I don't want my family to, reach the bottom of the slide with melted nylon adhering to the skin.
It is concerning that there are reports of some people exiting the plane carrying belongings.
Jul 6, 2013, 2:35 pm
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Luckily there are probably real (and not armchair) investigators on the ground by now and have already started gathering data.
Jul 6, 2013, 2:35 pm
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There appears to be some metal debris in the water near the jetty wall; perhaps that's part of the tail.
Jul 6, 2013, 2:36 pm
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Jul 6, 2013, 2:37 pm
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For those without TVs, ABC is streaming their coverage. http://abcnews.go.com/live
Jul 6, 2013, 2:38 pm
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This picture is quite amazing. (I did laugh at the fact there's another pax stopped to take a twitter pix..!)
https://twitter.com/SteveGrzanich/st...486849/photo/1
https://twitter.com/SteveGrzanich/st...486849/photo/1
Jul 6, 2013, 2:38 pm
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The nose gear collapsed and came off the aircraft. The gear is resting by the letter L by the 28L marking on the runway. With no nose gear, the aircraft dug into the runway and skidded to the left.